Apparently when I saw this on the Book Riot New Release email, I glossed over the fact it dealt with the sex trade. While I've read some powerful non-fiction on trafficking as well as the sex industry, I really don't do well reading about these topics in the context of fiction for entertainment. It's a hard read. For a thriller, it's well-written and deals with some heavy topics (including also marital strife and children learning about adult problems) in a thoughtful manner. Having been in the middle of Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984 which focuses on serial killers' sex crimes (in my current city) and then shifting to this, it was just too much. My real rating would be more of a 2, but it's really not a bad book. Just not the one for me. At least right now.