Ugh! This book had such potential!! As a wife that is often a caretaker for my disabled veteran husband, I was intrigued by the description on the back of the book. I felt a storyline built around a wife who gives her husband a kidney and then deals with the physical and emotional aftermath lent itself to deep character development and a subtle but very real study of “for better or worse, in sickness and in health”. That was NOT this book. This is a book about bullying. The kidney premise is really only about 10%, if that, of the story. It’s as if the author wanted to write two different books but somehow got confused and made them into one. I keep asking myself if I would have liked the book any better if it had been touted as a book on bullying, but the truth is, it still would have been a two-star book for me. The author “dumbed down” these characters for her audience, making their feelings and actions so black and white that it felt not only unrealistic but also insulting, as if we couldn’t read into the subtleties of a character who had the very human qualities of mixed emotions and paradoxical behaviors. I won’t be reading this author again. My Book Club hated it.