This book has been getting some great reviews, so I put it on hold at the library and waited and waited. When I got it I read it straight through, but I didn’t actually love it. It left too many ends loose, which is often taken as a mark of a strong work, suggesting a refusal to falsify the story or whatever. But this book wasn’t quite strong enough to be taken totally seriously, as good. It’s somewhere between a serious work of literature and an entertaining one, and I choose to accept it as the latter rather than be pissed of that it failed to be Great. Maybe I would have liked it more if the reviews were less strong?