I have a lot of conflict over this book because I love Donna Tart's writing style, and it is wonderfully written. It is a book that I admire a lot for the craft of writing but I just didn't really like it all that much. Unlike many reviewers I didn't have a lot of issues with the main characters being so dislikable, although that they are excessively drunk or casually rich or both made them very difficult to like. For me it was more that the characters were dislikable in similar ways so I had trouble telling them apart, and the various choices those characters made over the course of the book often seemed forced and strange. I adored the Goldfinch but this book came up flat for me.