2016 Edit: In hindsight I think the parts I found dissatisfying, were meant to be so. I think I tried to take the book at face value, and to do justice, it required more than that.

This was super long and I kept reading it with the hope that it would get better or that Mae would get better, but to no avail. For me, this book missed the mark somewhere. Maybe its that Mae is so unaware and brainwashed and there wasn't anyone who was a counterpoint to her who's not just dismissed as being crazy.