This book comes at you hot and fast. With a weird sexual thing, that isn’t a sexual thing but you aren’t sure if it’s a sexual thing as the opening scene. I hated it. The opening few pages alone made me want to put down the book and give up. I could possibly stretch and say that pretty much summed up this book. 
    I felt so lost throughout the plot. So muchjumping around and then repeating scenes and information. It became too much. The flashbacks felt forced, they were way too detailed and way too long. They also occurred way too often. I was having a hard time keeping up with the main plot line, so throwing me back in time for no reason was not helpful. 

 I’m all for a complicated book with a large cast of characters, but this was also ‘too much’. The US Embassy, the police, the CIA, the journalist .. honestly, even now I feel lost with how many groups of people were involved. In the end, why do I care about the different groups? Did it even really matter? Were all the groups necessary and did the multiple groups add to the story? From my point of view, no they did not.
     The big ending twist revealed itself early in the book for me. So to be proven ‘right’ was a kind of let down. 
     The interaction with her child was exhausting and unnatural. I could expand and say all the dialogue was pretty rough. 
     Overall, I do think this is better than a two star book. I mean, it kept me interested enough to finish it. When it comes to recommend or to not recommend, I have to say… I would not. The plot line is too all over the place to make this a book I could feel good about recommending.