So good 3/4 through then it just kind of drags and ends on the most obvious way possible. It set up an intense story line and killed it off about halfway through the book for some reason. There was enough left to keep me flipping pages but it couldn't keep up the promise. It seem like the author felt that she had to constantly refer to "blood" family. By the end my eyes were glazing over by all the family talk. It doesn't quite nail the gray area between good and bad that it was going for though. There's no way the main antagonist could be anything than a creep at best. Carl is a pretty sniveling weak ass dad.