There's plenty to like here -- suspense, characters, writing overall. I liked Echo and Noah, though they are both given some pretty extreme traumas to get through in one book. The emotional development toward maturity and toward each other is well done, I think, though I saw some reviewers complain about cliched lines (especially dialogue). True, but overall McGarry kept me reading. The romance was sweet, though the end is rather ambiguous: they ride off into the sunset but there is no real sense of what will happen next. I'm surprised to see that they don't seem to really get a sequel either -- though their friends get their books....