This book was such a conflict for me. I enjoyed it, despite the repetition and redundancy and repetition -- ahem. Seriously, where are the editors? When an author has been around as long as Steel, is the protocol to just let them write however they want? Does she have some kind of clause in her contract that they not edit her work? Do they just assume she knows what she's doing at this point? Because...wow. This book would have been fifty pages shorter, had they edited out all the times she used the exact same sentence, sometimes in back to back paragraphs, about the same topic. Having read much of her earlier work -- some of which I have absolutely loved, for what it is -- I've found her more recent work disappointing (at best) and painful (at worst). I almost question why I continue torturing myself with her newer books, when the last one I really enjoyed was Vanished, which was released in 1993. The bare bones of this story, though, sucked me in. I (mostly) liked the main character, Tanya. And while I guessed what the focal "twist" was going to be within the first twenty pages, I was wrong about how it played out, and I liked that it didn't play out exactly perfectly, as she often writes. She really nailed the emotions in this one, which surprised me how difficult this made it for me to put it down. I won't say it was possible for me to overlook the flaws in this book, but the story was engaging nonetheless and I can grant it a generous three stars for that.