Overhyped.
This book is somewhat simplistic and shallow. The religious themes praised in many reviews are only tangentially explored. The author spends a lot of time describing superficial aspects of three major religions, and people's surprise about the protagonist's desire to belong to all three, but that's about it. There is very little substance or thought expressed about reconciling differences in thought, or insights about their origins. Real issues are meticulously avoided. I thought the story itself was interesting, but in my humble opinion not deserving of the praise in most of the reviews, and certainly not for the reasons given - that this is a deep exploration of religious thought or human spirituality. I don't mean to disparage the work, which I'm sure many people appreciate, but I wanted to give my 2 cents of balance to the reviews, many of which, I believe, are inflated.