I enjoyed this book more than I expected. I'm definitely not the kind of reader that particularly enjoys character development-focused books, but this one was good. I think it's very telling of a good writer that I have no idea what the authors politics are, despite politics being a main theme of the book. I enjoyed that the main characters were intellectually diverse, which to me is more important than just about anything else. I called the ending from pretty early on, but the further I got the more I started to doubt myself, so it still ended up surprising me somewhat. Only negative is that the book was very slow, and I would have loved to spend more time with the girls in college. I feel like we only got a glimpse and I wanted to know more.