I have to go middle of the road for this one. Tate has a gift with words, but I'm not sure she has a similar gift for story-telling. What I mean to say is that, much like a lot of other reviewers, I had no idea what I was reading most of the time, which led to a feeling of true disappointment by the novel's end. Maybe I need to give it another read to make more sense of it, but not for a long while yet.