While the story is fairly similar to the film, the whole tone of the book irked me like a cat having its fur rubbed the wrong way.
The author has no concept of the difference between love and lust. Like no idea at all.
No one in the book has any idea how to form a functional relationship that doesn't revolve around sex.
There is a general theme that runs through the book that some women can bewitch a man so that they will do literally anything to have sex with them and can't be held responsible for their actions because the women are just so darn pretty. Well that just sounded a bit too rapey for me, especially when I read passages like this one, during a scene where a couple have been making out in a car and the woman stops things:
"At this moment, Gary wishes he could grab her and force her, at least until she gave in. He'd like to make love to her right here, he'd like to do it all night and not give a damn about anything else, and not listen if she told him no."
Well, that just sounds peachy.
In another scene, one of the sisters in the book turns down a guy who she actually loves but knows she would ultimately make unhappy. She keeps telling him she doesn't want to have anything to do with him but instead of respecting her wishes and backing off, he phones her constantly like a creepy stalker, and the author tells us how he wanders round town sporting a massive boner for her, which just made me cringe.
The whole tone of this book is that men fall so helplessly in love with women that they can't help themselves and therefore can't be held responsible for their actions. That it's somehow romantic to ignore a woman when she tells you she doesn't want to have anything to do with you.
Wrong. Just wrong.
0 stars (I know!)