I freely admit that I'm not a massive fan of romance, but this book was actually not bad. However, I did find the protagonist a bit annoying. She kind of rambled on quite a bit about things that were digressing from the actual story. 
 Also, I found the whole thing about how her mother escaped from jail a little bit far-fetched (I mean, how do you scrape a massive big hole in the wall of a high-security prison without anyone noticing?). 
 I don't think I'm going to carry on reading this series (at least, not in the near future), but I'm glad I took a chance and read this book, because despite my qualms with it, it's really quite beautiful.