This book took me 2 weeks to finish which tells you how much I wanted to read this book. (In case it doesn’t, this book didn’t motivate me to read in my free time at all. I was tempted to pick up another book but I knew if I did that, I’d abandon this one.) I often found myself bored while reading this book. There were some interesting parts. A couple devastatingly difficult to read parts. A quote I liked: “Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don’t belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don’t have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It’s knowing that you could be the author instead.” It’s not as good a book as I hoped it would be and I’m disappointed by that because it’s been on my ‘to-read’ list for years.