Colleen (USA: TX) (2012/11/06): I can’t decide what I feel about this book. I think I liked it. I think. The beginning was very slow for me. It felt very choppy in the way she was setting up the story. Mitchard did research the LDS religion enough to put the setting of the book in a Mormon community, but there were so many things that she got wrong or were just so-so in explaining that, as a Mormon myself, I found it kind of hard to read. Once she got into the actually telling of the story it got so much better. Half way in I found myself actually enjoying the book and couldn’t put it down. I thought the build up nicely done, but felt that the climax was – well slightly anti-climatic. I felt that the ending was way too tied up in a bow-ish. I really wish she would have expanded what happened between Ronnie and the Earlys’ after the “incident”. So, I have a like/like relationship with this book. It was good, but not great. Overall, I give this book a B-/C+
