Whew! It took me awhile to get to this book and quite a few weeks to get through it. I should have been able to read this book in an average week. I'd been a slightly slower reader at the time, so that played a part. It took some time for the story to pick up, and I found it very predictable. The writing is fairly standard. I know some people love GGK, but I am not inspired to read more by this author. I don't know that I would have ever gotten through this had I not had several hours on a car trip with little else to do but read.