I enjoyed Steve Almond's Candyfreak and this one looked good. I like epistolary novels. When I checked it out at the library, the sweet-faced girl who occasionally praises my choices in literature as she scans in the barcode gushed about this one - she had held off finishing it because she didn't want it to end. I read it in two or three days and it probably would have benefited from a break. The confessional nature of the letters is fascinating, up to a point. In one of the author's afterwords, she gives thanks to a friend who told her she needed to stop working on this book. The characters must have been getting on her nerves too! But it was, on the whole, enjoyable. ( )

I don't want to share this book with anybody. ( )

This novels begins with a couple almost having sex in a cloakroom at a wedding, and it ends with them sharing a chaste kiss after nearly dying while driving drunk. The novel in-between is the epistolary relationship between the two protagonists, who each serve, betimes, as the other's antagonist. I liked the novel the first time through, but I found an unexpectedly (and oddly profound) strain of sadness on my second reading. Not many people read this novel, and I think it's a shame. I don't think that the author's themselves even like the novel very much. But then again you should never trust what authors say about their books. ( )

A novel in letters. He writes John, she writes Jane. (The authors are not married to each other). The characters, nearly swept away by lust-at-first-sight, agree to exchange confessional letters first. Both relive their various romantic entanglements and sins, along with a little flirting. Both of these authors can write, and this is a very nice setup for the two of them.

I love books written by 2 different people narrating 2 different characters and alternating chapters, and having the chapters in letter format makes it even better! ( )