** spoiler alert ** I think it could have been better at the end - I'm not really one for books in which everyone has screwed up multiple lives by the end. Still, it made me think. Also, sort of a 2nd-generation-redeems-the-first if you like that sort of thing - like Star Wars and Wuthering Heights. Which I guess I DO like...I wonder why I didn't like this book more, maybe it was a bit boring. Also, by the end I REALLY liked the Melany character (I am not positive that is her name, but close to it) - whom I hated at the beginning. Also, abortion and the ethics of abortion are a major theme in this book.