I just finished so I don't really know where my head is at but this book was - in a way - really surprising to me. The characters were pretty frustrating to me because for a large part of the book I just kept saying 'if you're unhappy change something for God's sake', but at the end, I do the same exact things they do! Sure, different enough to not recognize at first but I don't speak up when someone's rude for example. But in the last half of the book something just clicked for me with these characters, because they do change slowly. I'm so sad Hope and Gloria never got their chance :(