I wanted a light read, and this certainly delivered on that, but the prose was so awful I almost put it down at about 10%. I continued reading it thinking that I had to adjust my expectations for YA, but I don't think the content was YA, so I'm not really sure who this is for. The main conceit, a woman living her life out of order, is used to set up mysteries and unclear patterns of cause and effect, but in reality, every piece has the most obvious explanation and there's no true suspense.

There was one huge flash of brilliance in this book, when the narrator lives the second year of her marriage before her first. This was the only part that had an emotional resonance for me; the rest was destroyed by the time jumps any time the characters started to develop.