This is the most tedious novel I have ever read. Not only does it spend too much time with details, It Seems to drag on FOREVER. A complete waste of time. Smith spends so much time on character development yet none of the characters are interesting or intelligent. And it never ends! If you are suicidal, do not read this book - it's too depressing. This is the first book I have Actually hated. When I read it I daydreamed at least 50 times a page. I though I would never finish. This book is for sensative, emotional girls who cried during Titanic. Boys who like Star Wars and Pulp Fiction will want to burn this book after reading ten pages. Trust me. A lot of people like it Because They Can "relate" to it. But that's not what literature is about. Literature is about telling an interesting story in a manner That provokes thought, not about spending three-quarters of the book Getting people "attached" to the characters and then at the end put them through a tragedy That makes sensative people cry and delute Themselves into Thinking the book was "powerful" and "moving". Take my word for it, this book is wordy and poorly though out.
