3.5 stars, rounded up for an ending that made me feel things I wasn’t expecting.

First off, I do think there are some pacing issues in this book through some of the middle. It felt like the plot wasn’t progressing quickly enough for my liking.

HOWEVER, I was definitely sucked in every time I picked this book up. The tension definitely builds in the last third, and there are a couple of twists/reveals that I didn’t see coming. There is one that briefly entered my mind early in the reading, but I’d kind of forgotten about it by the time it happened, so I was definitely satisfied with that moment as well.

As I said before, the epilogue turned this book on its head a little for me. I wasn’t expecting it at all, and I think it opens up a lot of feelings and opportunities for discussion.