I don't know what to think of it. Maybe 3 stars is harsh, since I LOVED the first 25% of it, and it stayed for me long after I'd finished it... But at some point I think it got too cryptic, too symbolic and too surreal. Where the characters supposed to be acting like real people? I see Sophia and her mother being the way they are, they're the novel and the fact they are the way they are is what makes it interesting, after all, but I still find no explanation to the way Ingrid, Julieta or the other characters responded to them. I also missed the point of the interludes narrated by a first-person narrator (which at first I thought was Juan but then--?). Hmmm. I'm happy I read it, I'm just not sure about any of it.