Not as good as Conversations with Friends, but a fairly engaging read nonetheless, and strangely I could see a great deal of myself in both Marianne and Connell— Marianne’s proud character, and her worries that she’s cold and unlikeable, and Connell’s alienating experience of the insular university environment from a first-gen, working class background, where students pontificate in seminars without having done the assigned reading and compare their families’ earnings. Unlike Conversations’ conversations, there’s actually very little meaningful dialogue and communication between characters which can be really frustrating! Conversations that occur between Connell and Marianne in bed, or sprawl across their long-distance email correspondence, are disappointingly elided from the page.