It took me a little while to get into, but toward the middle I finally started to feel vested in the characters and what happens to them. The one thing that really struck me about this book was the idea that everyone is a product of their circumstance. You have to expect that these people will act the way they do, considering the situations they came out of. It makes it hard to blame anyone and easy to pity everyone... 
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