Sarah Blake writes her novel in an omniscience voice. Which is a difficult point of view for any author to write and difficult for any reader to know who is talking which ends up leading to a lack of connection or identification to any of the characters. Thus leading to an unsatisfying read for our book club. Blake is very descriptive but it can't over come the lack of identification of with the characters. We felt the book had an identity problem it aspires to be literary fiction, but it is more of a romance written with too much formula and too little substance.