I feel like if I were rating this book just for my personal enjoyment of it, I would maybe give it a 2. This book isn't fun. As far as book quality, I don't think this is a bad book, which is why I rated it a little higher. This is a tense, dark, somber reflection on the sort of passive way that the world makes many people suffer and scrabble hopelessly. The whole book is permeated with dread. Even when there are moments of peace, they are fleeting and often wrenched away with tragedy. I will say that the end of the story was better than the one I thought it would have.