It's one of these books you can't put down at night. Need to finish it my precioussss. 
 Hand delivered a great woven intrigue with a masterful hand. The characters are deep, nothing cliche about them. You got to feel for all of them, Tucker, Christian, Clara's mom and even that Samjezza. When I feel for a bad guy, that's when I say hurrah for good writing. 
 Clara's mom keeps secrets. A lot. Normally in any other book the way Clara keeps repeating over and over how annoying that is would make me want to strangle her. But not once I have felt that way. Hand takes me where she wants, like a child. 
 The thought of having another love triangle at first was making me not sure but once again : nope. And it's a healthy one too (as healthy as love triangle can be). You know, there is not one of the suitors wanting to hurt Clara in all possible ways like I read too often about. Yay for that. 
 Minor thing : was it just me or the fact that Christian was going to end up going to Stanford was obvious as well as Jeffrey's purpose?