I know I was so close to finishing it, but there is nothing that is really going to make me come back to this book. The writing style didn't draw me in, nor did the characters. I really was getting tired of Violetta constantly being so self sacrificial that it made everyone else's contributions feel useless. The dark and mysterious house that's supposed to be a big draw is only so for about a chapter or two, which is a shame since the story tries so hard to be this gothic mystery, but only makes halfhearted attempts to do so. 

I flipped through the last eighty pages or so to get a vague sense of how it all wraps up and it all becomes more of the same.