I didn't love this book, but I liked it. It took me until nearly halfway through to find it compelling, but I admit that after that, I couldn't put it down. I feel kind of picky when I think of the things that I didn't like about it. First, the setting wasn't clear to me. I know it was in New England, but I kept picturing the South. I also know it was set roughly in the 70's, but it felt like a much earlier time period, such that the mentions of TV news and hippies felt anachronistic. Then, I didn't picture the main character as a blonde, even though the fact that she had beautiful blonde hair was a pretty large part of the story. And finally, the most petty of all, I didn't like the author's picture on the book cover and throughout the entire book was trying to figure out if I could like a story written by someone who looked like that. I'm not even sure what I mean by that (it wasn't a bad picture), and I've not had that experience before, but I think it sort of went along with my overall feeling about the book: the story was compelling, but elements of it just didn't seem to fit well for me.