I sure do feel like I read a different book than everyone else. This book is baffling because there are moments where I was enjoying it followed by chapters and chapters where I wasn't. The ending alone is enough that I almost bumped this down to a 2.5. It left me confused about what the author was trying to say. I think there was far too much going on and that the ending took away when it should have built up. There's threads that dangle and make no sense. There is a level of melodrama that I cannot tell if it was intentional or not but the result is that I felt annoyed by the constant level of extra this book had to offer. If the writing was less beautiful I probably would have outright hated it. But the moments that were good were so very good that I can't completely hate everything about it. So I'll keep it at a solid 3.