Jane Green’s first book, Straight Talking, is not her best. Tasha is both shallow and selfish, and I couldn’t root for her no matter how hard I tried. At one point she found out something hurtful and I actually thought “serves you right!” (She said as much to herself, too, but that still wasn’t enough for me to forgive her.) Though I didn’t hate it, I didn’t like it either, and if it had been the first Jane Green book I read, I wouldn’t ever have picked up any of her others, most of which are great.