As you read this book you keep expecting the turn around moment, maybe things don't end up perfect but you start to see them on the mend before the end of the book. Instead the characters are a bit static, but instead of making the book slow and dull it gives you the sense of humanity, of being unable to see your own flaws and grow from that or even more powerful, of being able to see your own flaws but being unable to change the trajectory of your life or act more appropriately.