Gosh, I really wanted to love this book but found myself praying for it to finish. I don't know if it was the prose, the YA-esque protagonist girl (impoverished, against all odds, beautiful) who I just couldn't bring myself to find believable, or the nature writing/mystery/social commentary/realistic fiction genre straddle the book was trying to reach, but the book just didn't click with me. Maybe I just went in with too high of expectations. That's probably it.