This book shocked and surprised me. I really did not know what I was getting myself into. I knew it would be darker and gritty. The summary I had heard did not really explain what this book was and so I found the ending chapter and afterward to be stunning as it put everything into a new context. At the middle of the book, I was thinking I'd be giving this a 3-star, but with the back half of the book, I now feel this will be a book I will keep thinking back on and might need to re-visit in the future.