The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan

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This book was incredible. It's an ambitious story about marriage, following four couples who marry and who don't marry. It also follows Frances Gerety, a single woman working on an ad campaign for De Beers diamonds, who comes up with the "A Diamond is Forever" slogan.

At first, I thought that the book was going to follow these four seemingly unrelated couples throughout the book which would had been just fine. The writing is excellent, there's great character development, and the attention to detail is wonderful. There's just enough detail so you know that the author did her research, but not too many details so that they were distracting. Trust me, I read and savored every single word in this book.

The great surprise was that all of the four couples end up being connected in a very clever, subtle way, and that really tied the whole book together.

I loved this book! My most favorite book so far in 2013.