This book surprised me. It is horribly cheesy and melodramatic. The entire romance between Fleur and Hugh was so overwrought and read like bad fanfiction, and left me embarrassed to read this book on the train in case someone looked at the screen and noticed how turgid the prose was. It is also the worst-edited book I have ever read; it was so bad that I had to do a little investigation into the publisher, which seemed to me little more than a vanity publisher (if only for agented) books. They do not edit. It's obvious. In this book, ellipses are never limited to a mere three dots and there are serious issues with quotation marks. The punctuation is atrocious.

And yet in spite of all of that, unbelievably, I found myself completely unable to put down the second half of this book. I don't know how it happened. Maybe the author cast a magic spell. Who knows. But instead of rating this one star like I'd initially intended to, I have to give it three because I can't remember the last time I was so enthralled by a book (although this might be because I've been reading less this year). It was so suspenseful!

And the ending, while initially unexpected for me, was very befitting of the book.

$1.50 not too badly spent...