I really don't know how to feel about this book.

I enjoyed the writing style, though I found it a slog to get through at some points. 

I appreciated the changing formats of the chapters, and I didn't feel this confused the narrative line, as it has done in similar books I have read. 

I definitely enjoyed the first half of the novel more, and enjoyed it less as I read on. 

I didn't ever really feel connected to the characters - it was as if I was watching them from behind a screen, rather than experiencing things with them. I suppose this could be a deliberate choice, but if so it didn't work for me. Reading other reviews, people seem to find this very emotional, but I thought it was pretty clinical, and it didn't make me feel much of anything.

All of the characters were pretty awful people, yet presented in a way that made me feel like we should like them and feel sympathy towards them. They also didn't have an iota of character development, especially in the second half of the book. 

Like most popular books I've read recently, I just don't understand the hype. My theory is that people who don't read much pick up these books and don't have as much to compare them to, so they become popular and more highly rated. Yet when people who read a lot read them they are left disappointed as they have read many better books and can see the faults more easily.