DNF.

The first scene is a great way to immediately make me want to bail on the entire book. Staring with a scene about a man cheating in his wife? Not cool with me. However, I pushed on and made it halfway before having to call it...

Part one was a total mess to me. I had a really hard time keeping the characters straight because the narrative threw them in pretty quickly, didn’t give much to really let them sink in, and then kept changing perspectives. As I read on, I began to keep the characters straight, but then new ones were thrown in; characters that didn't play a major role. To me this added more confusion as we were given some backstory that just didn't seem important.

Description of the characters irked me. It happens a couple times before I realized I was annoyed.
“Marcella’s profile could not be described as attractive, but she had grown into her looks...” “...but she’s not been blessed with Caroline’s beauty...” Like I said above, none of the descriptions allowed me to imagine the characters, so they all blended together.

The narrative was incredibly slow to me. There were a few situations that I enjoyed reading, but overall I just dreaded picking the book back up after setting it down.

And lastly, politics just leave such a bad taste in my mouth. I should have known that this would be an issue for this read, but I wanted to give it a go anyway. I mean, in this book, for example, when a candidate dies in a plane crash in this book, people immediately jockey to put out a statement first so they can use the situation to their advantage. Gross.