I have really mixed feelings about this book. The premise is great but the narration is really uneven. Long stretches of very engaging content are followed by equally long passages which - in my humble opinion - could easily be reduced to one tenth of the size. Characters go from complex, layered beings to cartoonishly one-dimensional ones. Overall, I enjoyed reading the book but I do think it could be just as good - even better at 400 pages, as opposed to 880. But even with this caveat I can still recommend it.