Sue Cummings

Disappointed. When I saw the title, The Women " I assumed it was about the women, not the poor rich girl from Coronado. The other two women are mere adornments. I disliked the protagonist. She is a one dimensional character bellyaching over the unrequited love from a bad boy. Also, the ending is very predictable. From the start, I knew she would somehow end up with Jamie... So formulaic. Most her other novels have the same predictability: boy meets girl, it's an impossibility, and in the end she gets her man... The author's book, The Nightingale, was masterful. This one, I couldn't wait to be done with.

Ordinarily I enjoy Jodi Picoult's books, This one, however, was tedious. It lacked cohesiveness, jumped around timelines far too much, and although the history and mythology of Egypt is fascinating, the way Jodi intertwined it throughout the story, along with Quantum Physics (although I get what she's trying to convey), which I find fascinating, but not as a part of this story, took away from the storyline. The ending is unsatisfactory. There's no real closure, and it felt like Jodi just gave up. I would not recommend this book to my friends.