Review: I don't buy the premise
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2011
I know this book is pretty hot right now, and it's an interesting premise for a book, but it doesn't really work. It makes sense that a government program wouldn't work, but it also seems that if marriages were "made" by the government, people would just choose not to marry.  I don't understand why Rainy applies for marriage when she's fresh out of college and just starting a career.  She tries to blame it on her father's position, but the explanation doesn't really make sense.  I don't understand why she keeps going along with it when she decides she doesn't want to marry the guy.  And, to be honest, I just didn't like her -- or her friends, or her boyfriend.  I agree with the reviewer about the need for proofreading too!  I've seen worse, but this was was pretty bad and, I agree, distracting.  So was the constant, constant use of the F word -- come on people, is this really necessary?  The ending was so, so predictable, but also pretty incomplete.  We never do find out what happens with the organization she has founded, or with the rest of the people in the story.  And come on, she's always drunk. She bores me.  I just finished it to see if I had the ending right, and I pretty much did.