This book is literally a grooming story between an 8 year old girl and a 24 year old man. They basically have sex when she is 13 and he is almost 30. They act like everyone is trying to keep them apart. They are not soulmates, she is a child and he is a predator. It’s just inexcusable how this is being passed over as a really great book in the reviews. It’s meant to make you uncomfortable and see through the lenses of a groomed, naive child. You’ve all been groomed by this author (and that is the purpose). You should all be very afraid of how easily you were lead into accepting and even supporting a romantic relationship between a child and adult. He at one point climbs into her window in the middle of and sleeps in her bed when she is 8. He wakes up with a hard on while her (neglectful) mother is sleeping downstairs and then has to climb back out of her window in the morning without getting caught. SHE’S 8. I could not believe what I was listening to. My skin was crawling. Don’t read a book just because it’s well written. This is a perverse insight into a dark world.