I read this a while back and have lost my notes -- sniff! But I really liked this first adult book (also a verse novel) from Ellen Hopkins, chronicling the love lives of three women in various stages of being married/not married. I realized how many teen books I have been reading about "firsts" -- first crush, first love, "first time," and how happily ever afters are often implied. I appreciated these stories starting long after the firsts, taking a good look at life during and after marriage, kids, illness, affairs, career, and all of the realities that intertwine knowing that life is long and doesn't end after the "firsts." Not many stories do this, and present life in all of its messy uncertainties.