Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't know if I misread the reviews for this book, but I mistakenly thought this would be a book of some depth, and it was not. The sisters at the center of the story were hard to like, especially Ruth, who was utterly useless, completely self-centered and fairly immoral; characters on the periphery were not well developed at all (still not sure why the author bothered to give Magnus such a repugnant background and then all of a sudden had him arrive back in the story as a "rescuer" without explaining how or why he had changed); the storyline lurched from section to section, with great gaping holes in the plot line (why would Ruth, as stupid as she is, not tell her two sisters that she lived with that her husband had been beating her, yet she spews this to a total stranger that she had literally just met?); and the biggest problem of all was why would I care what happened to these three main characters who ARGUED ALL THE TIME?? I don't think there was a single scene in the book where the three were together when they weren't fighting. Reading this book was like choking down a hunk of dry, stale bread- I finished it, but it wasn't pleasant and I do not intend on gong back for a second bite. This had the bones to be a good story, which makes it all the more disappointing that it was not.