Wow. This book had me hooked from the very start! It was dark and horrifying at times, but hopeful and thought provoking at others. The characters were so well developed and the storyline was fantastic (though dark). I loved that the story starts off with a bang-suddenly there is this girl (Minnow) that is covered in blood and is missing her hands. There is also a broken body is laying nearby. I immediately questioned whether she had anything to do with the bloodied boy, or if she had stumbled across him after he had just jumped off the bridge or something. In the next couple of quick chapters, Minnow goes to jail, court, and then juvie. While she is locked up, we slowly (though memories and flashbacks) learn about her very troubling past that had a few nice moments sprinkled through. I loved the way that the scenes were organized and that we slowly learned more and more about why she got to where she is now. However, my only complaint (and reason for the missing fifth star) is that the transitions could have used a little work here and there. For example, sometimes we saw Minnow talking with someone, then suddenly we were given a flashback but never learned how the end of her conversation went... Once, I remember Angel asking where she went once she had snapped out of a flashback so that made me question if she sort of dazed off each time a flashback happened during conversation. Of course the flashbacks could happen in a matter of seconds, which wouldn't really affect the current conversation she was having...but finishing up the convos in those situations would have been helpful so it didn't seem so jumpy. I highly recommend this book.