This is a really excellent book but I cannot award it 5 stars because of my own personal problems with it... it was a trifle, how do you say?... boring. The writing was great, don't get me wrong. The story itself, great. The characters, great as well. So what pray tell was wrong? The descriptions seemed to go on and on and on. Sometimes (okay a lot of times) my mind wandered to the point where I had to stop and reread a passage so I could remind myself just who or what she was waxing so poetic over. So, in fact, this probably IS a 5 star book, it's just my immature mind refuses to believe it. It definitely IS worth a read. Even, in my case, a REREAD because god knows, I probably missed a lot!