I enjoyed this book because of the suspense. Every event was always interesting. Hendrickson kept me intrigued into this book. I never wanted to shut the front cover. Another reason is the way Hendrickson writes. The narrator in this book is half Jessie and half Hendrickson. You can hear the thoughts going on in Jessies head, but then you hear things that Jessie hasn't even heard yet. This book really touched me. It really showed me how hard it was to live in that era, and the danger that they lived in. One thing that I disliked was that fact that Hendrickson took the violence a little too far in the book. By doing this Hendrickson disallowed younger children to read this masterpiece.