Overall boring and not really enjoyable. The entire thing is just so juvenile and pedestrian. Even Ishiguro's trademark amazing prose is completely absent from this work. You don't care for the characters who themselves are insults to cardboard cutouts. Definitely Ishiguro's worst book. The man who wrote "The Remains of the Day" and "The Unconsoled" is dead, this novel is but an afterthought in a bibliography of solid works.