It says this book was written in a "mesmerizing prose," but I don't think so. I felt the writing was very flat. I felt like I was reading a book for middle or elementary kids even though this book is supposedly aimed at young adult readers. The main character, Rachel, was hard to 'kinec' with. Her age was never mentioned at all through out the whole book, so I wasn't sure how I could identify with her. She sounded like an eleven-year-old at times and a fifteen-year-old at other times.

The beginning portion of the book has no dialogue whatsoever. There's a lot of explaining and things about orchids that I found quite boring. It took quite awhile to get to the action. There's also not much description concerning some of the settings like the town. The story only got better in the last couple pages of the book - seriously. Everything before that was pretty predictable, but I found the cliff-hanger ending a bit predictable as well and really abrupt.

I see that there is a sequel that will be out soon. I hope it will be better in terms of writing and explaining a lot of things in a way that won't cause the reader to get bored.