The Writing Retreat

Well...okay, I liked the first half quite a bit. The complexities of female friendships, the difficulties of writing, and the forced creative process of the titular retreat were all interesting + intriguing. But as soon as one mystery is revealed, pretty much everything is revealed and you're left with very little tension and a muddled, anticlimactic ending. I still liked it well enough and would read another book by Bartz, but this one fizzled out for me. I think in my heart it is a 2.5, but it made me want to start writing again so I'm giving it 3 unpublished manuscripts out of 5.