Most of the action happens somewhere outside the story and is described to a man by several different people. It feels remote and uninvolving. Why does each character sound like they are auditioning for a Stephen King reading? People in the real world don't speak like this. Why do the characters in the story talk so much, maybe because, since there is no action, there has to be talk to fill up page after page. The deeper I got into this book the less I liked the writing. The final straw was a sentence that went "They ran a couple sentences around each other. Nothing special." How lazy is that?