It took me over a week to read the first 100 pages of this and I was seriously considering just giving up on it, but then all of a sudden I was invested and read the remaining 300 pages of it in a day.

The writing style is hard to get into, I think, and the POV changes from Paz, to Hero, to Rosalyn (briefly), and while the vast majority of the story is from Hero's POV even that jumps around in her timeline, with no real structure to it. There's also a lot of untranslated dialogue in several different languages or dialects. However, while all of that is initially a bit off-putting or confusing, after a while I stopped trying to figure out her past timeline, and just took on board what was happening, rather than when, and the gist of the conversations that weren't in English were easy enough to get with what was translated. And once I got to that point the story just opened up into this wonderful story of survival, and hope, with two beautiful relationships between Hero and Roni, and Hero and Rosalyn.