This was an excellent book. It was also, at times, a difficult book to get through. You will be disgusted, infuriated, heartbroken seemingly all at the same time. It's probably not a book for everyone as the subject matter will be repugnant to most people. But at the same time, as a realist, I know that terrible, life altering things happen to young girls all the time in ways big and small. Here is a story of a teenage girl who has something BIG happen to her while she is away at boarding school. Something she thinks she wants and does not necessarily realize is a bad thing. Something she doesn't realize changed the trajectory of her life. Something that haunts her and taints her relationships well into adulthood. It takes her many years to break free of the poisonous entanglement. She must come to terms with what happened to her and see it as the abuse and betrayal it was before she can grow and change as a human. It's a powerful testament to the human spirit, to growth and forgiveness of self.