I’m pretty disappointed in this book. I kept waiting for the main character Beth to finally stand up for herself and grow up, and it just never happened. The end absolutely baffled me and left me with such a bad taste in my mouth. I don’t know why the author would choose to take this route with the ending, especially in this day in age where independent women and the whole “I don’t need a man to make me happy” are so prominent in the media. If you want to read a story about an emotionally abusive husband and a very sad pathetic women, then by all means The Hopefuls is for you…

As for the narrator, she did a great job with the accents but I just couldn’t get over how nasally she sounded through the whole thing…