I really wanted to like this a lot more than I did. I think that some of the writing just took me out of the story (and I also didn't care for the way the narrator read it). I almost DNF'd because the beginning few chapters were so repetitive--Edie was mentioned being a felon about 30 times along with the fact that it had been 8 years since they'd left. It's a pretty big plot point, so it was hard to forget and I didn't need to be reminded that many times.

I went and read another book and then came back and finished. This should have been a sort of found family sort of setup, but it never really felt like it. There was plenty of tension between Edie and Angel and a lot of scenes between them, yet I never really believed in their relationship. It felt too contrived for me. I think too much time was spent gathering the crew rather than just seeing how they interacted once it was assembled. It made it difficult to get much of a sense of who they all were and how they worked together.

Edie's blood family scenes were great though. That relationship with Andie and the kids was far more believable than with Angel. I think the book would have benefited from some flashbacks to really flesh out their previous interactions and to show how different they were together now. Without it, it really just seemed like they hated each other.