The Lonely Polygamist

An interesting read. At times, I felt I was reading a script for Big Love (though Golden is a much more sympathetic figure than Bill ever was). Yet other times the story would veer in an unexpected direction and feel like something entirely new. About halfway through, I became way less interested in Golden and preferred the chapters that focused on Rusty or Trish. Rusty is a total ass, sure, but he also produced the most laughs. Though can we talk about the Rusty hand-job thing for a minute? EWWWW. So not necessary and left me liking Trish a whole lot less, someone I was actually rooting for most of the book. And by the end, I'd have to say the characters on the margins–Hulia, Nestor, June–were the most interesting to me and I wish they had been fleshed out more.