This was a light read - very light. Full of cliches and immature characters.Not worthy of a book club discussion.

This could have been a really good story, if written with more depth. Also, it was creepy to me, all the unnecessary sex scenes, as if Smith was writing his own fantasies within the story. Yuck. Cringy. And I rolled my eyes at some of his word choices to describe what he probably thought were going to be highlights of his book; the ??sensual? parts read like a cheesy romance novel. I skipped reading them altogether. Then there was all the unneeded f-bombs and the over use of the phrase ‘for all intents and purposes’. Did he not read his own work? He may have lived on Fripp Island and known Pat Conroy?, but Smith is no writer in Mr Conroy’s league.