While there were incredible passages in this book, it just didn’t move me on a whole. I found myself annoyed with the main character more often than I empathized with her. She chronically self sabotages and then wallows in the consequences. I feel like we don’t get a glimpse of pre-anxiety ridden Casey. Her past is mentioned a lot—living in Spain, her mother leaving and coming back, and being a golf prodigy. But it doesn’t really show us who she was, how she felt, how she’s different now. It feels like she’s supposed to be getting back to herself this entire book, but we don’t really know what this self looks like. The “Lovers” in the book were underwhelming, to say the least. I could go on.
Also, I just have to mention it, that “you have to write the rape scene” was so out of pocket. She talks about how she doesn’t want to, then does, and then it’s over? But it doesn’t really resurface again in the book and doesn’t seem to be a direct correlation to her life at all—just a random scene in the book she’s writing. Unless I totally missed something, it felt like a weird and jarring thing to just throw in there. Anyway, I digress.