I wish I didn't have this issue with not stopping something I have started, because I certainly would have stopped at the beginning. But, I hoped it got better. The constant joking/sarcasm was very distracting to the story. I kept waiting for the "ba da bum" drum roll after each sentence. Instead of trying to be so cute, the story should have been worked on a little more. I actually had to start skimming the ending, just to get through it. It took me over a month to read this( I usually read a book in a few short days), I had to force myself to pick it up. The ending I thought was a little rediculous. A couple about to die, playing house. The man who couldn't say two words about his feelings through the whole book, all of a sudden couldn't shut up. It was just a poor book.