I vividly remember reading Three Sisters as an older adolescent and having mixed feelings. This one came out when I was in grad school, and it's ... more affecting. As in, I could spy some of the tropes coming, was again frustrated by loose ends and writing that didn't quite hit its target, and still cried at the end. Maybe it's just the YA genre re-seen as an adult; my hat's still off to most who work in it :)