When Joanne and I were returning from Hawaii last year, we had a lot of extra time at the airport and spent much of it in the bookstore. There was an Anita Shreve book there that I had not seen before. When I read the book jacket and discovered that it was all about cheaters, I put it back and was disappointed that I would not be reading this book by an author whom I admire. When Chatty chose A Wedding in December, at first I was concerned that it was the book that I had passed over, then I read the description online and it didn't sound familiar. Now, I believe that the publishing company changed the book description for the paperback version in order to give a boost to lackluster sales of a book that is all about cheaters.
I was halfway through the book and remarked to my husband, "Nothing has happened yet." Beyond not containing sympathetic characters (other than Agnes), this book was just plain boring. The most interesting part was the story-within-a-story that Agnes was writing about Innes Finch.
If this was your first introduction to Anita Shreve, please give her another shot. Her writing style is similar in her other books, but all of the ones I have read before contained actual plots.
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