Review: Not sure how I feel about this one.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
The book was available for free, so I downloaded it.  I read it expecting it to be funny and it isn't (the first line of the review says it's humorous).The main character comes across as a bit inept and whiny.  Personally it felt like a lot of the stuff in her life that makes her want to leave come across as selfish and kind of bratty.  Maybe if the novel had started earlier than this, I'd feel like I had more of a grasp on how things had gone wrong and why.  It just seemed like Margie took no responsibility for anything and made no attempt to change her situation before she ran away--we miss all of that, if it was ever there, because by the time we get to her, she's just "tired".They're struggling to make ends meet and going to get their power cut off, and she doesn't cash in the CDs til she decides to run away.  I wouldn't be able to do that to my family--if we needed the money for bills, guess what, that's what I'm using to pay.  As another reviewer mentioned, it never says that she called the realtor's office to update them on her new phone number but they call the house anyway.  That confused me.I guess I just didn't really like the main character.  I liked the roommates, I even liked her boss in San Francisco and her husband better than Margie.  I wish I felt that she was leaving for a good, justifiable, reason and not a completely selfish one. I felt like it could have been there, and it just wasn't.