At the beginning, I was confused. About halfway through, I started getting a little tired of the repetitive dialogue. About 3 chapters from the end, I decided that the circumstances in the story were pretty ridiculous. By the end of the book, I actually shook my head at the weird ending. But I did read the whole thing because I wondered what would happen next. So all in all, it was good mindless reading - just don't think too hard about the ramifications of everyone's actions. That's about par for all the Nance books I've tried to read.