I found it very difficult to buy into the world the author was creating when I first started reading this book. It all felt a bit forced and lacked grounding, for lack of better words. I think all the characters were short changed when it came to their individual outcomes. Everything that really affects them happens in the last third of the book and I would have liked to have seen the characters begin working through these difficulties earlier on. The concept of this book was a great idea but I was disappointed by the book in general.