This book can easily be described as something that you'd expect to find in paperback at your grocery store. It has a number of sub-plots running throughout the story that are painstakingly wrapped up in a cheesy bow tie that makes you feel like the author is trying to spell out the entire book to a group of middle school kids who aren't paying attention. Significant character development and attachment are lacking. If you need a book to read on a long plane flight and have nothing else, fine. Worth the money for a hard back? Not even with a coupon.