Title: Great, but too long by about 10 pages
Review: I always like it when authors tackle tough issues, and this one was a toughie for sure. I loved how I got to know every character from their own point of view and from everyone else's point of view as well. By the end, I understood where all of them were coming from, even the ones that weren't necessarily "sympathetic" characters.The thing that I keep coming back to, though, is that the book needed to end a few chapters earlier than it did. I can't really say why here without giving everything away, but I'll say I thought the last few chapters were a real copout and I would have been happier with the book if it had been left more open-ended. This is not a happy ending kind of issue, I know, but it's also not one you can tie up in a neat bundle at the end, and I think that's what the last few chapters tried to do. The result seemed contrived.
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