I have conflicted feelings about this book. On the one hand, it's so good. The writing is gorgeous and Greenwood tells the story so well. There are a lot of different narrators and usually that can trip me up a bit, but in this book it worked so well. Everyone had their place in the story and fit in so well that I never felt like I was struggling to keep up. I would highly recommend this.

I cried so hard at the end. I love when books can make me cry so hard that I literally have to stop reading for a minute. I want to feel that level of emotion.

On the other, and this is where it gets a little complicated for me, this book made me feel bad. I don't know why. I frequently read books about sad topics, and in general I prefer it. Happy fluffy books don't hit me emotionally in the same way so I seek out sad books. I knew the Sally Horner story going in, so it's not like that surprised me. And like I said above, I love when books make me cry. But something about this book just hit me wrong and made me feel bad in a way that I didn't enjoy and have never experienced before. It almost left kind of a bad taste in my mouth, and I don't understand why. It wasn't just the topic. I genuinely don't have the words for why and I hate that so much.

The one thing I can talk about that I didn't enjoy was the level of coincidence in this book. It seemed like this book was full of overly convenient coincidences. Her brother in law goes looking for her in Baltimore after she's been kidnapped and just happens in the same convenience store she was in earlier, but forgets to ask if anyone recognizes her. A woman in a circus offers to let Sally run away with them the next day, but then for unrelated reasons they have to pack up in the middle of the night. Sally decides to ask for help from her neighbor, but the neighbor winds up moving out literally that same day. It wasn't that one of these instances bothered me, but there were so many that it continuously felt too convenient and gave the book a sense of unreality.

This was highly worth reading, though. I thought Greenwood's writing style was lovely. All of her characters had so much depth and fully fleshed out this whole story. It was absolutely fantastic and if you can handle such a difficult topic, I think you should give this a go. It's such a well written book.