I'll make this brief. After all the hype, I was sorely disappointed in this book. Instead of living up to the review in the L.A. Times, it reads more like a dry biography as opposed to a novel. I found it poorly written, badly translated, and repetitious, making it melodramatic in the use of exclamation points, underlines, and phrases used again and again, not to mention entire paragraphs restated again and again. Oh no, here I go, repeating myself. I must have caught the bug!