I\'d like to give it 5 stars but it wasn\'t quite there. So few books are-- even the ones I see given 5 stars.
In this case my reason was the first half of the book. It had trouble picking up steam. The first couple pages were slow. And then it took off! From there, the story varied--up and down in excitement, in energy level, until, in the second half Hailey maintained his emotional intensity through to the end.