The astronomical companion Book

I'm not quite sure why I picked up this book - blurbs like "circumstances that will forever change the lives of all three women" are kryptonite to me. People 'finding themselves' is not my thing especially when an affair is used to get a marriage back on track.

It started off better than expected and in the first few chapters I so wanted to smack Pom I found it upsetting.
By the time Pring was also turning out to be a total rat I was getting a little weary with the women tangling themselves in knots trying to cope with this behavior and Ms Siddons was using the word alabaster too frequently.

Then the scene moves to the Redwoods where our main character is obviously going to find herself, and also earthquakes.
At this point the language switches from bordering on the flowery to repetitive dialog, particularly the inner dialog. Seemingly endless paragraphs are spent discussing feelings and how these feelings make them feel and how these feelings make them act and how they feel about how these feelings are making them act or feel or …. Heck only knows because I had stopped paying attention.

The romance was dry and dull. The tragedy was extremely predictable and left me unmoved.
Everyone else lived happily ever after (except Forrest - nobody seemed concerned about the poor rat) and the only character I really wanted to make it out alive was Curtis the dog.

I would recommend to some who likes a better class of chic-lit with a half-decent language style and more concerned about feelings than fashion.