From almost the first page, you can see where this story is going. The narrator is fairly flat and tells the story through some very inane questions to herself. "Will this happen?" "Can I do it?" "How will I ever overcome this?" This is very bad storytelling and only makes the narrator-and protagonist-seem dull and unresponsive to anything happening around her. 
 The plot is fairly run-of-the-mill and nothing that happened was a surprise. There was too much cliche, too much of what you usually get in a story like this. It was written really well in a sense, which makes it even more a disappointment. There were, however, times when the point of view would randomly switch from first person to third person without so much as an explanation and the need for this is obviously that something pivotal needs to be told, but would be impossible to tell it via the first person narrative. That is the bad-but good and necessary-point of a first person narrative. 
 There are also too few things, except mentioning the date and some obvious era-related items dotted about, that convinced me of the date and location of the book. The dialogue felt forced, trying to be early 20th century but sounding like a modern mock-up. Execution was simply not done to a good standard. 
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