i am feeling generous in the evening that i am writing this review, so i will start off with the positives. the atmosphere of this book was so good. i am a sucker for stories that take place in stuck-in-time towns where the main character feels like they are going to be stuck there forever. my only gripe with this book is that the chapters were short. by that i mean the average length of the chapters was two pages. it made the story flow quickly and i read it in a day but i wanted more. i just feel like we could have gotten more out of the story with longer chapters so that more could be shown on the page. also, the random recipes do not give anything to the story. please get rid of them.