wolfie0516 reviewed on
Helpful Score: 4
Like one of the other reviewers, I am also going to reread this book to see if I pick up on and interpret things any differently the second time around. The book left me thinking and mulling over the complexity of relationships and choices that were made in this story by most of the characters, but especially Anne and Alex. I can't help feeling sad and a huge sense of loss with the final decision, but I don't really know another way it could have ended and not torn everybody's world apart more than it already had. I did not expect this book to have such a deep story or to leave me so moved and unable to stop thinking about it. I was pleasantly surprised that there was more to it than just sex (I admit that I read it out of curiosity for how these types of things, i.e., menages, work). I found myself not able to put it down though (stayed up all night to see how it ended), and not because of the steamy and very passionate sex, but because of the relationships that had developed between the three characters. I think the story resonates so much with us because it strikes at the heart of what some of us face where there's reality on one hand that you try to make the best of and on the other hand, there's that secret fantasy where you're swept away by someone and completely caught up in them and share a very intense, personal, deep understanding. All of this is played out in the midst of very dysfunctional family dynamics and issues that also give you a lot to think about. Very good book overall and worth reading if you like to be challenged and be left thinking.
