This book was defintely a slow burn, but it was written beautifully well and brought to the table a lot of real and raw emotion. The timeline of the story was sometimes difficult to discern because there were many flashbacks and jumps forward, but I think that though it could be confusing to the reader, it depicts how life in trauma feels. I like how every "now" chapter had a "then" chapter to express the reasons for everything and all the consequences. Though I overall enjoyed the book(again, it had a good plot and I really loved the characters), it was just personally a bit slow for me.