A Woman Lost

In walks the most gorgeous woman you have ever seen, the problem is that she is your brother's fiancée and your girlfriend might mind you sleeping with her.

Elizabeth, Lizzie to her friends, is a woman who just does not know who or what she wants in T.B. Markinson's A Woman Lost. As she laments all of her woes to her best friend, Ethan, over chai every week we get glimpses into who she wants to be, the lies she tells herself and others, and what she struggles with as Ethan calls bullshit on the half-truths. Lizzie is a self-absorbed, workaholic, who cannot be the bad guy unless it is directed at her family. During the six to eight months the story takes place she ends up from just sleeping with a girl to something deeper and according to her this happens all without her help. She falls in lust with her brother's fiancee and debates with herself during this time whether to seduce her away from her brother all the while checking out the waitress serving chai to another customer. Lizzie is complex, human, and as messed up about relationships as most people are - she just is not willing to look in the mirror at herself unless she has to. We get a chance to see how Lizzie formed her less than idyllic view of relationships and how she has opportunities to view them differently.

I do not know if at the end of the book whether I liked Lizzie or not, maybe I see a lot me in her - I am not sure yet, something to think about. I did like a majority of the secondary characters except for Sarah's best friend, but maybe I am not supposed to like her (laugh). The sex when it happened was hot. The fun and erotic moments between Lizzie and Sarah are why we read romances in the first place.

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