Elizabeth Noble's "Alphabet Weekends: Love on the Road from A to Z" centered primarily on the relationship of Natalie and Tom, both childhood friends who were also best friends. When Natalie was dumped by her boyfriend, Tom decided that they would do an activity every weekend based on an alphabet - starting with A and ending with Z. Tom thought that they could be more than "just friends" and decided that this "game" would help to distract Natalie from her breakup and at the same time proved to her that he could be a potential boyfriend. At the same time, Tom's sister-in-law, Lucy was attracted to her best friend's husband and might consider having an affair. In addition to all this, Natalie's parents, Anna and Nicholas, were also having problems of their own.
This was an exceptional confusing novel for me because the author jumped back and forth with these six characters - Natalie, Tom, Lucy, Patrick, Anna and Tom. She gave all six of these characters a "first person" pespective and it became even more confusing. If you are able to flip through this novel, you'll see the headings "Natalie and Tom", "Natalie and Anna", and so on. Not to mention, there were also so many secondary characters in this book. When I first read the premise for this book - which gave the impression that it was all about Natalie and Tom's relationship, I thought it sounded promising. If the author had concentrately mostly on them, this would have been a much better book. As a reader, I was never able to really get into their storyline and was never engaged. The author was never able to convince me of their relationship and it was more of just one activity after another. I had high hopes for this book but was unfortunately, greatly disappointed.
