I love this book. I love the story, the characters, the setting, and basically everything about it. Usually when a book is this long, the pacing is slow and draggy at some point and you just wish that it would be over already, but I never once felt that way about this book. I was intrigued the whole way through and I didn't want it to end. 
 This book is about survival, about getting to the point when everything seems hopeless and lost and still coming out the other end despite all odds. It's a good lesson that I will try to use in my own life.