She should stick to short stories. There just isn't enough happening here to stay interesting for ~300 pages. The characters are fairly dull and unlikeable; everyone's obsessed with this girl Kate who has zero personality other than alternating between mildly bitchy and completely helpless. Basically, one thing happens in this book and it's not worth the time it takes to get there. A big disappointment.

This is one of those books that I just wanted to be done reading! I kept hoping something would happen to hook me in, but it never did. I didn't really like any of the characters. They were not at all sympathetic and their way of speaking and relating to each other did not seem realistic. Why would any of these people be friends? Also, I couldn't figure out when the story was supposed to be set - sometime in the 1990's, I think. If you value your time at all, skip this book.

I didn't care for it. The dialogue and characters were annoying and I didn't find myself wanting to know what eventually happened to them.

This remake of the Great Gatsby offers pithy commentary for the college graduates of the 90s and Y2K years. At times, one gets the sense that Macy herself is a bit of a Georgie Len, both envying the ease of the old money set that the Ivy League has given him access to but never really belonging, and at the same time disdaining those who belong and those who try to hard to seem like they do. In the end, it is as much a time capsule of 20-somethings lack of direction and search for meaning as it is a lens into the upper echelons of society.