I was a little disappointed with this book. I am such a big fan of Tsiolkas and his previous work and had high expectations and hopes for his latest work, but it just fell flat.

The storyline was good - that I do not dispute, but the layout and style of the writing was jumbled and a little lost. The structure of the writing didn't make much sense to me. Writing between past and present characters isn't something that's new especially in Tsiolkas' work, but he jumped all over the shop with his main character - there wasn't consistency between the past and present chapters and that left me silently frustrated. Usually I didn't know what was occurring at the beginning of a new chapter mainly because I was confused by whether it was past or present Danny, and halfway through the book I found myself wondering about present Danny as after the first section of the novel he was abandoned until the last chapters of the book.

I really wanted to like this and I'm really bummed it wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be. It only gets three stars thanks to the story (and even then the story could have been a little more refined - there was a lot of repetitiveness), if the story was a complete disaster I was have only rated it two stars based on its lack of decent structure.