I picked up this book from a library sale because a friend encouraged me to read some regular novels with no "historical" label attached to them. It was very difficult to do and I found myself quite angry through the first couple of chapters as I just didn't care what happened to the characters. The writing was good, though, and I became engrossed in the characters. There wasn't a great deal of depth to it, and the end, like post-climax flew by very quickly - almost as if the author had a deadline to hit or something, but overall, not a bad book. It reminded me a bit of A Separate Peace - coming of age with two newly adolescent boys, tragic happenings, how they come out on the other end.