This book in three words: compelling, surprising, unafraid. This is not the kind of book where the ending is handed to you at the end, ends tied up prettily in a box. I was left with more questions than answers and a sense of "what just happened here"? That said, I like to start books without knowing anything about them, and if I had read the jacket summary, I wouldn't have been quite so surprised at some of the plot "twists".