This was not my favorite of Jane Green's novels. The plot lines were overly fantastical with far too many things going on at once. Though she does manage to develop the characters well and keeps each separate plot line moving well, the story becomes far too unrealistic and it just gets overwhelmed with activity and unfortunate events and circumstances. I found this novel to be more juvenile than her other books due to plot and story development, though the writing style seems more progressive than her prior novels. It was a very fast read, which I think saved it somewhat. Had the plot line slowed at all I think this may have been a book I put down. In fact, the quick moving plot and attention to detail are the only things that saved this book for me and bumped it from two stars to three. If I didn't have a history of reading Jane Green's novels and didn't know what she is capable of, I don't know that I would read another one after this.