It's a creative enough story, but I found the main character too shallow, egotistical, spoiled and (self-avowed) cold to like and therefore find the book disappointing because she never ceases to be so, nor does the author sufficiently explain why she is so. There are also too many absurd events, such as her walking around war-torn Liberia unaccosted, her children suddenly becoming gang-leaders, making and getting demands from the war leaders, helping to get Charles Taylor from an American prison, etc. How true the book is to the story of Liberia I don't know, but I'd rather trust a history book.