Sonya 
 Is 
 Fangirling. 
 This book wasn't perfect, but it was pretty close. The lowest I ever thought I'd give this book was probably four at the beginning. I will say this book was slow at first, the characters are a bit hard to relate to but I saw everything in my head. I definitely saw it. I was not stuck to this book like glue, and I was occasionally a distracted reader. Jess was that archetypal best-friend character who's really shallow and keeps telling the main character she's too withdrawn and needs a boyfriend. 
 Nevertheless, 
 it 
 had 
 that 
 spark. 
 This was beautiful. Freaking beautiful. It was not totally exempt from my impatient page-counting, but if my thoughts about it went down, they always went back up. I won't yell at people who gave this less than four stars, but for me this makes the favorite list for sure. I do agree there were issues with the slavery thing, but the slaves aren't really all one-dimensional.