I feel like this book tried to do too much at once. In attempting to tell the stories of all four sisters, Jones had to resort to many time skips and off-screen action. She set up conflicts in one chapter, only for it all to be resolved in the very next chapter, with characters relating the events in dialogue or summed-up narration. This lowered my engagement in the story, and I feel that the book would have benefitted if Jones chose instead to focus on one or two sisters, and thus spend more time building the events of their lives in a more engaging manner.