This is by no means a bad book, but it just wasn’t my preferred type of story. I knew going into it that it might be a miss for me, as I often don’t enjoy highly character-driven storylines, but I was hoping this would be an exception. 

While I did enjoy the overall storyline, I found the present timeline boring and I thought that the book could’ve been much shorter. To add to that I didn’t love the lack of structure, with chapter POVs shifting between a large number of characters in both past and present. It felt very chaotic, and made it difficult for me to really get invested in any of the characters.

That being said, I appreciated the events of especially the last 25% of the book, and I think a lot of people could find many things to love in this book.