I know lots of people who have loved this, but it wasn't for me. Not so much the content, as the writing, which was too descriptive for my taste. I also had a problem with the 'magical' world that Bond created for the book, and how flexible its 'rules' were. Every time something terrible happened, the protagonist, Ruby was able to get out of it by the rules changing, which meant that I stopped trusting or believing whenever I was told that something was as bad as it could get.