This was a hard book for me to start reading. Lots of bad reviews and I could barely remember anything from the previous book, just that they were a "churchy" family. Finally gave it a go to get it off my 'to read' pile. Slow at the start but it got better. I'll probably read the next one just to see how the cliffhanger ending pans out, although will just rent it at the library. Wouldn't recommend to people over the many other amazing reads out there - it wasn't bad by any means it just wasn't captivating like a lot of good YA material is.