This book was filled with a sprinkle of really good, intense, descriptive scenes (like the refugee camps with the kids in the barrel), but otherwise fell short for me. It seemed like the author kind of lost focus with some of the characters, just writing to fill the pages and not bringing it all together into a cohesive story. I found myself asking, “wait, what?” multiple times and rereading pages to understand what was going on. Interesting premise and idea, and I don’t regret the read, but I think this would have been better suited in a short story format.