The story was typical Mariana Zapata with the slow build, lots of everyday interactions, lashings of internal monologue and a fella who starts out as unresponsive as stone. 
 I read this as an audiobook and think I would have enjoyed this more if I had read it in print because I did find the enormous amounts of 'in the head' of Van wore me me out and the 1,2,3,4... maybe wouldn't have irritated quite so much. 
 This sounds like a negative review, but it isn't. I enjoyed the way the relationship developed, and ultimately the book was very satisfying.