Well, I started off really enjoying this book, as D.E. Stevenson is a trusted comfort-read author for me, but I could not really handle the plot suddenly switching itself into a kind of Mansfield Park retelling (though thankfully, Deb is not as pathologically shy, weak or passive as Fanny Price) all that well.
It wasn't too bad as far as retellings go and I liked Deb and Mark much better than Fanny and Edmund and yet I could not really get comfortable with it all.