This took me a really long time to read - This will probably be the longest book I read over the next year. However, if I could keep an audio book for longer than 10 days, I could probably finish listening to this 40 + hour book in less than the amount of time it took me to read. There were huge sections that could have been cut out - which I'm sure were cut out of the originally published book. There were certain details that weren't needed in the slightest because the characters were not going to matter what-so-ever in the long run of the story. I liked the last half of the book the most because the characters were finally all together (although I understand the reason behind characters being separate at the beginning and traveling to eventually meet each other. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get into this book as much as I would have liked, the short amount of time I was able to keep the book to listen to it with other people checking it out keeping me from rechecking it out, plus the business of life affected by overall rating for the book. I have to settle at a 3.25*.