Review: Split-Level

Split-Level by Sande Boritz Berger
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Split-Level follows the lives of a family that looks like it has everything on the surface, but when it comes down to happiness, there is much that is lacking. Alex and Donny throw themselves into the openness of the times and find a couple that is willing to do the same. What transpires isn't as surprising as one would think, given the nature of the characters involved.

Although this book is well written, you'll leave at the end of the novel feeling like you hate most of the characters, whether you are totally cool with the idea of these couples as swingers or whether you are appalled by that idea. It's not that the situation turns them into severely unlikeable characters, it is that the story make you see that however unlikeable they are at the end of the story, you can clearly see this is how they were even before the story begins. In terms of setting, this story fits right into the 1970s with the openness of the time as well as all of the depressing things (Nixon, gas prices) that come with it, seeming to fuel the already unquenchable fire in these characters.

*Book provided by NetGalley

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