I was very excited to start reading this book. Very soon I was disappointed. It’s insanely long and there’s honestly no reason for that. In my opinion at least 300 pages could have been left out. There’s no reason for the insane amount of backstory involved in this book. I don’t need to know about everyone’s church affiliations and who they were friends with (especially if the friends don’t even have any involvement with the main story). I honestly only finished the book because I refuse to stop reading once I start. I decided to go with a 2 Star review instead of my initially planned 1 Star because this is clearly a very well researched book and the author definitely put in the work to get as much information as possible. Unfortunately, a lot of the information was not important for the purposes of this book.