This was very well written and had a lot of emotional impact, but it took me forever to read and contributed to me being in an awful mood over break because of the intense subject matter. It had a lot of important things to say about war and addiction and trauma, but it was just all a little too much for me at the time. I may reread this when I'm in a better mood for it because it was very engaging and really made me think even though a couple plot points at the beginning were unrealistic and the characters could have used a bit more development.