Name All The Animals

The book so far is relatively decent. I didn't like the beginning, where all it was was grief and sadness and talking about the death of the protagonist's brother, and that doesn't really interest me. I can't read about people crying and crying and crying some more, so that's why I really disliked the beginning chapters. However, I read a little bit ahead and got to around page 39, where I feel it has steadily picked up from the whole death thing. During the chapter with Paul, it was good to see a hint that there wouldn't be all this sad stuff. I predict that in the future of the novel there will be some sort of relationship going between Paul and Alison. If there is no relationship, I fear that the entire book will be flashbacks about Roy's death and Alison's father crying. But I don't want it to become all romantic. A little romance would be fine, but too much would be terrible. Hopefully the book gets better.