my take: My mother had two copies of this, so she tossed one my way – without recommendation or explanation or anything. As I started reading, I got the feeling something was going to go wrong … and so I read with fear and trepidation that the “gate at the stairs” had some bad outcome.

Not at all what I expected to go wrong went wrong, so that was nice. The novel is set in a medium size college town narrated by a small town college age woman. She was immature and mature, as people that age are, so fairly convincing point of view.

I did not “devour” this … in fact, got a bit distracted by other books. So it was a leisurely read that I dragged out. Would like to hear if anybody “got into” it more than I did.

my source: My mother

my verdict: Good, not great. Worth a read if you’re in need or have on hand.