I hate this book. Just adding this review to remember why. Its bleak and its boring. How its so filled with cold, grey angst but still so incredibly dull is beyond me. It was a struggle reading this in school. This from a person who flew through most required reading whether I enjoyed it or not. I still don't know what was the literary merit here. I could usually at least get that. But this was like someone was stabbing me slowly for weeks. I will say the descriptions of the landscape and setting were detailed but they were poor, miserable and living in the middle of nowhere so a lot of nothing described in detail I guess. That's fun. The plot was a no for me. I did not care about his emotions or reasonings. Just ugh. Its like Zeena sucked the life out of this entire book.