For once I don’t think this Hill book is the best thing since the last one. It is of course pretty good all the same. I like the fact that Hill keeps trying new things even though this one doesn’t work that well for me. I enjoyed the fact that various characters from old books popped up years and years later than their original appearances.

I kept hearing that people didn’t like this book because there was too much of Ellie in it. I like Ellie and I like her in this book but the story as a whole didn’t gel for me as well as other of Hill’s tales have done.