Snowed In

Christina Bartolomeo

I'd expected light women's fiction with a bit of atmosphere when I succumbed to this Amazon recommendation but instead I got a less than interesting story in which the setting featured very little. Thirty-five year old Sophie Gould re-locates to Maine along with her husband Paul who has accepted a temporary position there. Sophie finds herself increasingly suspicious of a relationship that Paul forms with a colleague and, determined to not allow her insecurities to dominate her, she sets out to establish new friendships of her own. All of which culminates in a predictable ending that I celebrated merely because it meant the experience was over! I thought Sophie, the narrator, was awkward and mildly annoying and the story was reminiscent of several other books that I've read - only they were much better. Think Maeve Binchy's Evening Class, for example. I rated Snowed In a 3