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Great, great book. I loved this. I'm so used to reading things from a woman's point of view, or if it's a guy it's more action and not emotion. This was a fascinating look at a man wondering about and learning about his wife's actions.

I liked this novel a great deal at the beginning - interesting premise and well-drawn characterizations through the eye of the narrator. By the middle of the book, I was starting to daydream through the same repetitive passages and by the end, I was skimming to finish it. However, I found at the end that I had not been patient enough because the pivotal conclusion was finished in several "meaty" pages. I am left wondering if Mina got a call from the publisher asking for the finished manuscript immediately and she had to end it. By then, I had tired of the seemingly endless navel gazing and preening self-importance of the main character, so perhaps it's just as well it ended when and how it did. In my opinion, this book is not a "keeper."