text: The writing is beautiful; lush and richly descriptive. I enjoyed it immensely, but again, some readers may find it dense or overwritten. This book is not for the faint-hearted, however. It doesn’t pull punches when describing sex or violence. The deaths are gory. The scenes are gritty. The sex is explicit. It’s definitely one for older readers – it’s being marketed by HarperVoyager, and not HarperTeen, for a reason.