From all indications, I thought I would love this book, but not so much. I don't get the comparisons to Flowers in the Attic at all--so says someone who loves her trashy V.C. Andrews books--aside from the obvious. Engels writes well but she's not free of her YA roots and the whole Cooper/Lane love saga did nothing for me, I may have skimmed a lot of it because I found it just that boring. Lane was a bit of a mean girl but more so a dish rag who didn't do a whole lot of anything. I was so excited that after Gone Girl we'd see more female anti-heroes, but no so much. I've yet to find a writer who wants to write a deliciously evil female character; it seems that the unreliable narrator is much more attractive, specifically use a stock female character and give her some Regina George dialogue a few times through out the book and call it a day. Engels is not, by far, the only offender but this book irritated me more than it should have.