Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am writing a review in the hopes that Amazon will never again recommend a book like this, at least not to me. Ironically, for a book obsessed with regrets, the best way to avoid regret is to skip this book. It is predictable and relies on hackneyed, ham-fisted writing. It never takes the time to develop its characters so it has to tell the reader everything, including why we should care. It’s moralizing and lecturing and stilted. To the extent anything about the book is subtle, it is the troubling and unnecessary implications that women should sacrifice themselves to save men or that a single unsuccessful suicide attempt will cure depression. But I may be giving the book too much credit. The overarching premise is to live the life you have, or something. I’m not going into the plot or characters in detail because the author didn’t bother so why should I? What is infuriating about this book, at base, is that there is probably a good book somewhere in it but it is buried under heaps of contrivances and tropes. It reads as though the author was so concerned with writing a “feel good” but “deep” novel that he abandoned storytelling.