What did I just read?

This was definitely like reading a soap opera.

I picked this up randomly at my library and I kept thinking to myself, why are you still reading?

Here's the thing - this book has the weirdest structure. It starts in Daisy's "present" and then almost immediately flashes back to a scene from her childhood and then almost immediately flashes back to her parents' meeting and then flashes back to her father's childhood and then works forward to the "present" and then moves forward, but then has continuous flashbacks to gaps in those time periods that have already been technically covered. I mean, even when it makes no sense, which means that huge chunks of the story feel "told" rather than "shown" - for example. It jumps from the great tragic moment of Daisy's teen years to after she's been in college for a while and then fills in that gap with Daisy thinking about what happened rather than actually just going in order.

Honestly, I think the only thing I really liked about it was the very end. And for a moment I thought the ending was going to go a VERY different direction and then I probably would have thrown this book against a wall.

Why did I read the whole thing? Because I did sort of want to see how all the pieces came together and because I really struggle with compulsive finishing of books I've put any real amount of time into. Do I regret it? Only a tiny bit. Would I recommend it to anyone else? Probably not.