Something that can be read while you are sick with something that makes it hard to concentrate on. This is the second? time I've read it, though I do have to admit that I do not remember the ending, although I do remember some of the earlier parts of the book. It was something that held my attention despite my cold and fever that was constantly going up and down. I couldn't hardly concentrate on one page, yet somehow, it seemed to take my attention off of my misery and focus it on something else. I do enjoy the way that the author writes, she certainly has a good way of developing her characters and the overarching storylines that cross the various books. I have been skipping around in the series as I have read it, and I have to say, what I have read in this book certainly explained what I was confused about in later books. My advice, actually follow the series in order. That is actually something that is somewhat new to me, I mean, when the books are more like companion novels focusing on a different person within a group instead of the same person.