I really enjoyed Leah's voice and the way Allan wrote overall. I found the journey that Leah went through both in rehab and spirtual wise to be believable and well paced (meaning it wasn't instant overnight oh I'm better! Oh I'm saved!) type of deal. This book dealt well with two very hard topics and difficult situations to go through in losing an infant and being an alcoholic. I even liked how it showed the dirty part of getting clean (in Leah being violently sick her first night at the center) and I felt that her journal entries gave us more insight into Leah's character, even if the novel was written as first person and I wish there had been more of them.

However the one thing I didn't like about this book was the husband. He was a completely unsympathetic charcter throughout the entire thing and I found myself wondering why she was with him until the end when you found out about what Leah thought love was. Carl acted selfish, he didn't act like he cared about Leah and throughout the entire book his primary focus was sex. In fact, that's the reason he didn't want his wife to go into rehab was because it "relaxed" her and sex with her was "fun". He was never supportive of his wife in any endeavor and in the brief flashbook with their daughter resented the time she was spending nursing their newborn ("You need to take care of me too"). Ugh...there was just too much suffice to say I have never wanted to punch a literary character as much as I did Carl and that includes Gatsby's Daisy.

It's a good read. It took me awhile to get through only because I had just finished a semi-depressing/horror book and I needed a break with something lighthearted before I could finish this one. I am interested to hear more from the author and would recommend this one to my friends.