To be fully transparent, I never would have chosen to read this book myself, so if this is your normal genre this review isn't really for you; it's really for myself and those that read the same things as me but might be thinking about branching out. This was a book for my bookclub and a couple of people did in fact love it, I just wasn't one of them. 

This story was so incredibly boring. I found the characters to be boring, I didn't think all of the character development in the books was logical (or romantic for that matter) for one thing. How does one go from furious at a teacher for culturally appropriating your Muslim children for a Christian Nativity play to wild and crazy bedroom fun with her within the same hour? At least the turn around of regret afterward made sense. 

I also found nearly the entire book to be absolutely and positively depressing. Nearly every single person was whining, fighting, leaving, or dying. There was the tiniest bit of happy news near the very end but it didn't make up for the rest of the book being as gray and depressing as the Scottish weather they kept describing. 

As usual this reaffirms my belief that contemporary romance (though I hesitate to use that term for this book) is not at all for me. I just don't understand it.