As much as I wanted to really like this book, I just could not get behind the story lines or the characters. It felt like there were too many characters thrown in and I did not feel any sort of attachment to any of them, not even Azure, who was the sweetest of them all, in my opinion. It felt to me as though there were too many excessive details bogging the stories down - too much information about where Azure and Rain were living, unnecessary details about the pasts of different characters that just didn't resonate or feel important. We got into the mindsets and heads of too many people for me to keep track of. Further, nothing really seemed to be happening to push the story forward. It just felt like Rain and Azure were in a constant state of near-misery with no change in sight. Even when the sisters got moved to Dolly's house with Junior, I was waiting for something to happen and it just didn't. I hesitate to give this a rating because I want diverse voices and stories to be heard and seen but I have to be truthful to how I felt.