Not sure how to rate it.
There is a shocker coming almost half-way through the book, but only if you don't pay attention at the end of the last one/beginning of this new installment.
By this book in the series, tho, it's pretty clear that the author embraces all kinds of backgrounds, disabilities, choices and (out of person's control) circumstances and tries to bring her characters to a pretty ...satisfying conclusion (no pun, peeps, just straight hard plain facts :D)
3.5 stars, rounding up to 4.