This is a hard one to rate. It's a bit slow moving, repetitive, and boring at times. It's also quite sad and leaves you with this feeling of hopeless melancholy as you work your way through it. I may not have finished it had I not been listening to the audio. I think I kept listening because I could, in some way, relate to some of the emotions in this book. I'm not sure you would like this book if you couldn't look past the very basic plot line to the messages hidden in between. The truth about Harold's past was a heartbreaking and although, there was some resolve in the end, it wasn't done with any fanfare and left me still feeling a bit sad. But I can appreciate it because it's what reality sometimes is and I liked the realness of it.