***3.5 stars rounded up*** 
 Ok, so here's what I've gotten from this... lovely book. 
 1) Beware of Billy Dent (even typing his name is freaking me out) 
 2) I love Gramma. Even if she's a deranged, hateful, shot gun wielding old coot who loves fried chicken, she was possibly my favorite character in the book. 
 3) Jazz's struggle with being brought up by a serial killer for a dad, who not only flaunted his murdery-ness in Jazz's face all the time, but also played all these horrific mind games, is really intense and complex and SCARY. I was sympathetic to his struggle yet wasn't sure if he was actually a sociopathic crazy dude. I'm still not super sure. His murderous inclinations were pretty... abnormal. 
 4) I loved this book, but at the same time I think I need a recovery period from the freaking roller coaster ride of emotions I just stepped off of. 
 I need cute kitten videos, STAT! 
 Signing Off - 
 Madame Reads