This story was really borrring. It was all I could do to read it. I skimmed over a LOT of it, just waiting for SOMETHING. I've read a few of Jackson's other books and they weren't too bad. This one just had sooo much nothing in it. Even the BIG SECRET can be figured out in the beginning. I just hate to start a book and not finish it > that's the only reason I read to the very end.