A friend highly recommended this book to me and I'm not sure we read the same book. I didn't necessarily dislike the book but I certainly didn't enjoy it much either. I'm very conflicted with it and I don't know how to explain it. The writing was fairly well done, the author can write in an intriguing way. But the story didn't go very far. It felt like 10% actual story and 90% background/set up information, which made the story drag a bit. The ladies had interesting back stories but getting to the details took forever so once I learned the whole story, it was a let down. Nothing was really resolved at the end and I didn't feel satisfied upon finishing it. So, ok book but really not all that good.