It was slow for me to get into. If I'd followed my 60 page rule, I would have put this down. However, I had heard such good things about it that I did not want to stop just because it was very slow. After such a slow beginning, my reading time contracted to nearly nothing and it took me over one month to read this book. At the time, that was an extraordinarily long time for me to read a book.

In the end, I'm not sure if I liked it that much. Certainly, this is not an easy read. I usually enjoy dark books, and while "violence" to children bothers me, I can tolerate it for the furthering of the plot. Someone is either going to love this book or hate it. I am undecided on which for myself.