I'll be honest, I went into this book with high expectations, but early on, felt a little like I'd been duped, as it seemed like it was falling quite quickly into the chick lit/romance genre. Very quickly though, I discovered this book was worthy of my early expectations. In parts it is a bit light and has a Mills and Boon feel to it but it also deals exceptionally well with a pretty horrible situation and possibly the reason it works is because the juxtaposition of light and dark is really quite true of real life? Dunno, just putting it out there. Very worthy read.