A review by katwey
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve

2.0

I felt completely cheated by this book. I usually love Shreve, but this one I had to slog through. I kept waiting for the point of the story in the first third of the book. ("Where is this going?") Sort of sad characters, used...we go backward in time, which is an interesting approach, but it doesn't work, The second third of the book made me angry; two married people decide to have a torrid affair and cannot stop themselves. Weak characters with no redeeming qualities. The third and final section deals with them as high schoolers. Throughout the book there is a thread of The Accident, which happens when they are in high school. The last paragraph or two tells you the entire story was a lie and that she died in The Accident. Going back and making sense of the book from the beginning was too much trouble and I just wasn't interested.