I love Alice Hoffman. Her writing just flows from the page, and has such a wandering, meandering, dreamy, mesmerizing quality. My favorite of hers is Seventh Heaven. About a quarter of the way into this book, I paused in my reading because my head was filled with the thought “God this is so good! I love her writing!” My least favorite is At Risk, which in my opinion is a departure from her usual fare, having none of those qualities I mentioned above. If I'd read it first, I might have liked it better, but it was so totally not what I had come to expect from this author and so I was disappointed in it.