Edit: Reducing my rating by maybe a half star or whole star. I just can't get past the writing when I look back on this book. A solid intro and conclusion doesn't do it for me when the middle was blah. It just needed way more editing and I'm more disappointed than satisfied in a lot of ways. 
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 Really good/interesting beginning and ending, but the middle was slow for me. I also determined that I love SJM's storytelling but don't like her actual writing that much. It's so repetitive (I wish I had a fucking dollar for every time I saw the phrase "vulgar gesture") and the sex scenes are weird lol. Regardless of that stuff, her stories pull me in. I'm totally intrigued to see where she goes next in the spinoff/companion books coming. She set up a LOT of things and people for those books I think!