I won this book in a First Reads giveaway. 
 It took me a while to read this novel. I kept picking it up and discarding it, and I am facing the same sort of difficulty in writing a review of it. 
 I feel like the novel never really delves deep enough -- we skim the surface of events, and things certainly happen, but there is no deeper understanding, and no sense of actually being wrapped up in the story. We are constantly viewing Eleonora's life through a clouded window; it is interesting, but not engaging in the way it ought to be. I enjoyed the book, and was obviously driven to pick it up again every time I set it down, but there is still a little something missing that I can't quite place. I can't write about the novel in a better sense because of this. One should be left with some sense of the purpose of a novel like this, and that unfortunately just does not happen. The reader is left wanting more, as if the book had been chopped off halfway through, and we are left trying to figure out what was going on and what it was all leading up to. 
 (view spoiler)[In the end, I did get some enjoyment out of picturing Eleonora, donned in suit and fez, disappearing into the night to steal a TARDIS and explore the galaxy. (hide spoiler)]