Samantha Peale

I struggled off and on to finish this book, and thanks to a 6 hour flight delay - with 3 hours actually stuck in the plane on the tarmac - I had little choice but to plow through it.

By the time the book ended (while still on the plane), I was finally enjoying it and felt like the character (Emma Dial) was taking shape...and then it ended.

The first 200 pages or so rambled about art, the art market, art assistants, relationships, casual sex, jealousy, competition, New York living, you name it. And none of the topics reached a point. Once the waffling Emma finally makes some decisions, the book takes a new direction, Emma becomes interesting and I felt my investment in the book was going to pay off. and then, "The End".

It wasn't a bad book, and what was developed was written fairly well, I just couldn't read more than a chapter at a time because I didn't care enough about any of the shallow characters which had been drawn thus far to do more.… (plus d'informations)