Books like Sweethearts

Bleh. I kept thinking I would start liking this book, but I never did. I just wasn't sympathetic to the character at all, and I felt like the author was shoving it down my throat that I should sympathize with this poor girl who has had it so hard. And through the whole book, she keeps alluding to this deep, dark secret thing that happened to her as a child . . . you get little pieces of that story as mini-flashbacks, but she doesn't reveal the whole thing, to keep you in suspense, I guess. Finally, at the end of the book, you find out . . . NOTHING happened! So why is this the defining moment of her life? Why does it make her start binge eating when she thinks about it?Spoiler ahead -- And the most frustrating thing was that the author has built this whole story around a relationship the main character had with a childhood friend whom she loves more than anyone else. He comes back after 8 years, and all she does is think about him and want to be with him. In fact, she is the very reason he came back, so clearly, he's feeling the same way. But do they end up together? No, he goes back home to California, and the book ends.