OK, where to begin? I don't even like the NAME of the genre (chick lit) and I have no clue how this one ended up in my pile. But there it was, so I picked it up. And I admit it entertained me. I could totally relate to the protagonist, who is the less attractive one in the friendship and the one who is always getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop, but who is brighter (well, academically anyway).. and who ends up falling into bed with someone who is committed to someone else, and then staying with him even though he doesn't leave to be with her...at least not right away. But, as someone else said, this is like watching -- well their example was something I have never seen so I will change it -- like watching a movie with Meg Ryan or Julia Roberts in their America's Sweetheart days -- like Runaway Bride, or Sleepless in Seattle -- you know EXACTLY where the story is going and you go along anyway. 
 So at first I thought about reading the next in the series, and then slapped myself and realized I'd rather rot my brain with mysteries and thrillers and true crime than chick lit. But good God do I need to be less judgmental of those whose reading crap is a different genre than mine, or WHAT? Mercy. 
 The 3 stars is because in some ways I just HATED it and in some ways it totally entertained me, so I just picked the middle ground.