I liked this more than some of my friends. I didn't have trouble with the structure of the story either, which has a lot of flashbacks. For me, it was the violence in the story that got to be too much for me. I don't know why, but it was a bit too graphically described for me to deal with. I did like how it made me think more about Greek mythology than I have in a while, and Lore's path is interesting, although heartbreaking.