Well this was...I don't want to say disappointing because I actually did like the basic story and the characters...but it was definitely not the masterpiece I was expecting after years of hearing people gush about it. Like I said, the basic story was good. Interesting plot, some twists and well researched background. I liked the chatacters for the most part (though Jack tended to annoy me one or two times). I think my problem with this book was that it's just too long. It says a little over 300 pages... it felt like 900 though (it's also almost 10.000 locs on the kindle so I doubt it's really only 300 pages long), which I wouldn't mind so much if there weren't some parts that were dragging, too. After the first excitement there's a really really long stretch where there's nothing but our two MCs getting to know each other. That just wasn't enough to really keep me ivested in the story.