Well this was extremely disappointing. It was pretty obvious it was her first novel, the sentence structure was messy, and the point of view changed often with little or no indication and it would sometimes take a few paragraphs to make it clear whose point of view it was.

Also, I found basically all the characters extremely unlikable. Julia was selfish and frustratingly weak, James had a holier than thou attitude, Gwen was infuriatingly immature and selfish, Nathan's character didn't have much development and the elderly characters really served no purpose. The only character I didn't mind was Philip and his purpose in the book was very unclear. If he had been removed from the plot, I don't think it would have made any difference at all.

Then, the ending was just like.....really? that's it....? There was this big event that was a catalyst to a big change for the characters and she just skips over it and it's all of a sudden a year later. Umm....what?