I can't give anything less than 5 stars for this great book. About a terrible incident, experienced by two teenage girls. About a school shooting. I thought the latter would be the story that would get the most attention in the book, but it didn't. It felt like a story in the background. The book really is about two girls, two women. Trying to live their life, considering what they went through in their childhood. The chapter about (view spoiler)[what really happened to Charlie, really got to me. It was such a vivid description, such a horrible scene. (hide spoiler)] I guess that says something about how Karin Slaughter writes, not afraid to describe all the necessary gruesome details to take the reader to a place they don't want to go, but go anyway.