It was a good idea for a novel but I personally thought it was boring. There's only so many times you can say that a secret has suffocated a family like a vine growing around a rock or whatever before it becomes annoying. Edwards is a good writer and was very descriptive and insightful, but I think the book could have been cut in half and still told the same story. For the final third of the book I was skimming because I felt like I was reading the same thing over and over again.