I had high hopes for this one, but it never really got the the point where I knew exactly what I was reading. It was quite fascinating at times, but the plot is just downright uninteresting. The best of the subplots tended to be rather amusing, though, so it was a somewhat hard pick between 3 and 4 stars. But at the end of the day, I'm definitely more in the 3 star camp than the four star one.