This was… an interesting story, but… it didn't quite grab me as much as I'd hoped when I started reading it. I think I might have a different experience if I continued to the second book in the series (where I'd start knowing things about this book's world that I didn't when I started it the first time), but… I don't expect I will.

The writing is good and I can imagine other readers enjoying it, but… I found too many elements of it unbelievable: not just the supernatural aspects (which were obviously going to be a part of it), but… even when we learn about Dessie's husband and his life before he met her, it just feels a bit too "convenient" and unrealistic to me.

The book's ending softened my negative feelings about it, but it was too little, too late: I'm disappointed enough that I don't want to invest the time in another book in the series.