I gave this book 3 stars I didnt like the mother at the start but I tried looking past that I did see the movie a long time ago with my mom so while reading this book I had the movie playing in my head nonstop all and all the book turned out to be okay in the end I would probably never read this one again but if I do find the 2nd book somewhere i would like to read it just because I liked the father and the kids in this book