This book was really interesting to me because it feels very much like an unfinished story, which is probably the point, given that Evie's story is unfinished. The writing style is poetic in parts, adding to the dazed feelings that Evie experiences through much of the 1969 sections of the text. There were parts that turned me off a bit because they felt gratuitous, but those same parts are what helps explain the awakening that many young women feel as they leave behind their childish ways and dabble in the business of becoming a woman. 
 Overall, this book was probably a 3.85 for me.