Here is a good read for a vacation. The plot is not so engrossing that you will be a bad traveling companion,that is,with your nose stuck in a book to good to put down.Read awhile ,set it down,pick up again. repeat. I would warn off the fellas and say this in a chick-read. I would also say it is aimed at readers who like plants and all things garden, and yet for those who aren't the sections that are heavy in plant lore are sectioned and easily skipped or skimmed over.