I tend to agree with you both. I had to make myself keep reading it (my son's girlfriend lent it to me) and I found it depressing also. I had a better opinion of it when I finished reading, but still not a book that I would read again. The movie trailer on TV made it seem like a different book, I had to check that it was the same book. I have a feeling it almost will seem like two different stories.
I could see it being used in a Lit class as a required book for discussion.
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