Abandoned by Booklikes

I did not know it was humanly possible to despise every damn character in a book that is not written by Gillian Flynn. Seriously. I want someone to put together a freaking pie chart to show most despised characters and see if one particular author manages to someone cause the reader to hate every single person that they read about.

I have always wanted to go to California and go vineyard hopping. This book has turned me off of doing that anytime soon.

Georgia Ford pulls a runner the week before her wedding because she discovers something super explosive about her fiancee (yeah when we get to the reveal I was disappointed, and then annoyed by all parties).

Georgia goes home to her family vineyard and finds out that her mother is apparently falling or fallen in love with someone else, her father is selling the vineyard, and her two brothers are acting weirdly around one another.

Georgia thinks she knows what is best for everyone though you tell her to her face she doesn't know. She psychoanalyzes all people who come across her and does so badly. She backpedals on everything in her life and her constant justifications for why she does certain things are just in a word, stupid. She even gets involved in trying to stop her family from selling the vineyard because she thinks she knows what her parents need. Sigh.

Other characters in the book don't fare any better. Georgia's fiancee proves he is stupid for not telling Georgia something she needed to know.

Georgia's mother is going around giving advice, though she is embroiled in an almost affair (yeah thanks for the advice). Her father is no help. She has her one brother being a totally shitty brother to the other, and her other brother who is clueless to what is going on around him.

Of course the book throws in a love interest and blah. Double blah. It was pointless since you knew what was going to happen so why even read to the end.

Secondary characters are not well developed, and I thought that the author just dropped way too many storylines that she should have developed a lot more.

The book decided to go from Georgia's perspective to revisiting Georgia's father's first foray into making wine and how he met his wife and there ups and downs through the years. It made the book drag on so long, I started skimming those sections because they added nothing to the book.

The setting of the the vineyard was totally lost on me. I didn't get any type of excitement from Georgia about making wine or the smell of the Earth, the grapes, how things taste after the sun has been shining on them. All this book made me do is long for "Under the Tuscan Sun" where the author does a better job of describing wine and the taste of grapes, and cheese, and crackers and everything else you can eat along with wine.

The ending was a hot mess of a joke. Things get wrapped up quickly and I guess we get a happy ending.