The disjointed narrative, made up of flashbacks, legal documents, court proceedings, and bits of the present, didn't work for me in this book because it never allowed Rory to have a voice. And while the fact she doesn't have a voice makes sense in the story, I couldn't connect with her for a long time and couldn't put together the pieces of why she was so broken, hurt, and silenced. I found the Girl Scout story line thinly developed until the end when it suddenly had a lot more page time.

That said, the ending was fantastic. Rory got what she deserved and did so in a way that felt redeeming and almost hopeful. I just wish more of Rory would have come through sooner in the story so the payoff would have made me cheer a little harder and I would have rooted for her a little more throughout. As it was, there were too many secondary, unimportant threads running through to really allow her story to work for me. It tried a little too hard to be literary and sacrificed other elements because of that. It ultimately wasn't that literary, either.

The setting in a trailer park was unique and a well-executed setting that didn't come off as convenient nor contrived (which it could have easily done).