** spoiler alert ** 
 Tw for discussion of rape and teen pregnancy 
 I could actually tell what this book was trying to do, which is always a positive. Sometimes, I can't tell and I'm just confused and none of it feels good. 
 But I could tell what this book was trying to do, even though it failed entirely to do it because it didn't manage to portray the true horror of what happened to this girl. She got raped, she got pregnant via said rape (and where's the discussion of the massive difficulty and violation that so many woman feel in that sort of situation, she didn't even STRUGGLE with it) and discovered that a long line of women in her family had been tormented in the same way she had as a result of a curse and that, more than likely, this curse was going to torment her with madness UNTIL SHE DIED. 
 It was a very dark story really, but it didn't feel that way. It felt like an after school special. Teenage girl gets pregnant but everything works out okay because she got married and stuff! At no point did anyone discuss the problems that even middle-class girls have when this sort of thing happens to them. College is really expensive. Kids are really expensive. 
 A missed opportunity, is sort what I felt this was because it felt like it should have been a tragedy that happened to end well but it didn't.