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Well, after reading so many positive reviews, I feel like I must be some kind of moron because this book just didn't do it for me at all. I felt like the story didn't really flow with any sense of urgency to read the next page. It felt like reading a cookbook. I didn't feel that invested in the characters, which was probably a good thing since the plot sputtered out and died. My favorite character disappeared. Then, even though a scene is set up perfectly for Marie to share the stories of his heroics to his sister, nothing is said. And another huge piece of the plot just disappears like the author somehow forgot...The scenes were so sporadically described, I felt like a blind person stumbling down a street with no sense of what else is happening around me. In one section, I realized after reading a couple pages, that I was reading about a gang rape. It was described so dispassionately that I had to read it again to verify. Just did not have what I look for in a story.