I forced myself to finish this book. I cannot believe the critics giving it five stars. The only character in the book that I liked was the toddler, Briar. Everyone else was so superficial, and frankly, I didn't feel the book was well written. The ending was empty with no one changing and simply headed in the same direction... nowhere I'd want to go.

I read this book because I have a brother whose wife has Alzheimer's. I thought it might be a book for him to read and find something to which he could relate. I was so wrong. I found this book almost insulting. The situations in this book are simply unbelievable. Things would never play out in real life the way it did in this book. I don't understand how the author could distort and treat a tragic affliction the way she did.