...really, I did.But I think the author (and this is just my opinion...I don't have a writing degree of any kind, I'm just an avid reader) is trying WAAAAYYY to hard. I think the book could've been cut down by at least a third to tell the quality of story. It was overly wordy and at some parts I tried hard to follow where it was going but I couldn't. Again, I don't proclaim to know anything about novel writing. I think the premise is interesting but it didn't take long to get lost in the overuse of '$50 words' and descriptions so wordy and, well, over-described, that I was tired after reading it.