Man this book was a trip. I felt simultaneously too old and too young to be reading it, and the characterization of Peter, Leslie, and Julia just reinforced this sentiment. What I liked about this book was it's breeziness, Martin can turn a phrase pretty deftly, and his ability to write characters that are somehow people you know and people you hate while also being people you love is such a real, real feel. Ultimately, there's not much at stake in book, it's relatively plotless in terms of constructing a story that isn't as simple as romance gone very stereotypically awry, but I was hooked from beginning to end, which probably says a lot more about me than the novel itself.