"Deep down, my insides seethed. I knew I was stone, too. It was a home alarm system that didn't seem to have an on-off switch. Once installed, the sirens went off and the gates shut, even if the intruder was loving." FUCK!!!

The book reads like it was a second draft that got published without any further editing. If there even was an editor at all. My edition had many typos and punctuation errors. Minor, but I still noticed them.

One strength the book has though is, in Jess' earlier years there's so much happening, so much to remember and to say, but then as Jess gets older life literally passes by. There's one sentence in the in between of being in her/his late 20s and approaching early/mid 30s that only says something like "years passed". Now I'm not old enough to know if that's how life feels as you age, but from what I know going from childhood to teen years to now young adulthood, I think that's an amazing detail, even if it wasn't intentional.