Great Writing, Poor Pacing
I picked this book up while browsing. I flipped through a few pages, liked the crisp writing, flipped again, and still liked the writing. But, much to my disappointment, when I tried to read the book straight through, I found the overall plot to be surprisingly off. Aurelie can clearly frame beautiful sentences, but what happens in the book is helter-skelter (at best), and the secondary characters seem unknowable.