Ooooh there were so many interesting developments in this next section that...oh wait, no there weren't. I don't understand how this book clocks in at three hundred and some pages because basically the same stories just keep getting told over and over, from different perspectives. Normally this is a writing style I like but the different perspectives didn't reveal any new information so it just felt as though you were reading and re-reading the book. Previously mortal enemies Jane and Sam have reconciled and now are lovers instead because that's how these things happen. Jane is fretting and worrying about telling Rebecca that she wants to boink another man even though she is technically still married to Rebecca's dad. Rebecca is too busy wanting to boink Hadley to notice these developments. Hadley keeps telling Rebecca she's no kid, even though, um that's exactly what she is but he wants to boink her without consequences. Hey, whatever works. Jane and Rebecca have more roadtrip adventures, but I won't recap them as I'm sure you can imagine what they are. Flash forward/back (honestly, I don't know anymore!) Hadley pretends he doesn't like Rebecca but then they make out. Jane asks Sam about his orchard and he gets his panties in a twist because...once upon a time he was cross eyed and no girls liked him and then he went to college and no girls liked him either because he was a farmer. Yikes, Sam needs to reign in his emo-ness. Jane recaps her first sexual experience with Oliver. Snore. Then we learn about her first day on the orchard when she fell down in some sheep poo and Sam laughed at her. Well, I would have done the same. Poo is funny! Meanwhile Sam and Hadley continue their spree of prejudice against women who aren't farmers. Oliver is boring and Joley is super creepy. He doesn't like Oliver because he is bad for Jane and once had a sex dream about Oliver and Jane, which is too disgusting to even think about. On their road trip Jane and Rebecca buy a car, steal some money and then Rebecca gets her period. Well obviously this is a book about "womanhood" so I guess it was inevitable. The two 'ladies' (personally, I feel a lot of annoyance towards books that use the word 'ladies' in an non-ironical sense) go shopping and Jane buys some sexy underwear and lingerie because the only time she wore lingerie Oliver ripped it. Geez, Oliver can't do anything right in this book.On the other hand though, Oliver nearly has a fling with a waitress and then kindly informs us that he only cheated on Jane twice but it didn't mean anything so everything is okay. Ha! I love this guy. He should write a self help book about douchebaggery. Joley writes more creepy letters to Jane. Jane and Rebecca go to the sight of the plane crash that Rebecca survived when she was three. Oh and Jane learns to swim. Yay?
Ugh everything about this book seems so tired and out dated, but then again it was written in 1992 so maybe I would have a different perspective if I had been reading it then?
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