By far my favorite series. Easily. Out of the 3000 books I've read in all my 11 (nearly 12) years of reading, this says a lot. So much dialog, so much suspense, and so much description, that though I think like Sophie throughout the book, I feel like I'm there. Like I, myself, am a character in this series. It's truly captivating. You'll never know until you read it. Most people say the first book isn't the best. But you have to read the first to understand the second. The first honestly isn't that bad. It's a little boring at the start, but that's every book, right? Wow, Shannon, you're a writing-wonder.