I'm giving this 4.5 stars because I really do think it's beautifully crafted. The beginning is fairly slow though, so I'm docking it half a star because of that.

I am glad I finally read this after people constantly asking for it when I was working at Barnes and Noble. It really looks at people's perceptions of others and the fact that maybe not everything is as it seems on the surface. The mystery at the core of the story really helped to drive the story overall, and I was invested in Kya's story until the very end.