I wanted to like this book. I think that it had potential to be wonderful, and moving, but it never delivered. The ending made up for the beginning, as it was technically better written, but not by much. There were a distracting amount of spelling errors, and it was very repetitive (I hugged him, I nodded, my veins burned, etc.) It was just too slow, and never really lived up to my expectations. I have no plans to read the second book, which is a shame.