" The characters in this book are well developed, like ordinary people who could live next door, but all with strange and bad situations surrouding them. While I liked the characters a lot, and the writing was good, it was like most of Oprah's books, as in, you know nothing good will happen, and there will not be a happy ending. It was a bit of a downer. If those characters were my neighbors, I would tell them to put on a happy face and buck up. I kept reading with the secret hope that something god would happen, but it didn't. "
— Cecilia, 2/10/2014