I could NOT get into this story. I gave it half the book (like, that's a fair shot!) and was just uninterested. It didn't have a driving plot at all, and the characters weren't very easy to connect with. I've heard great things about this one, and love that it was translated from Italian, but maybe that's where it lost some of its oomph? I just didn't see the appeal and could not stick it out to the end.