There was a great twist, and it was interesting enough that I finished it in one evening. But reading it was a continual exercise in suspending my dislike for the three main characters, whom I found unrelatable and almost unbelievable. Adam’s incompetence is belied by the success of his business, Tess’s naïveté is infuriating given her set-up as a smart, independent woman, and Arkady’s benign, comforting nature is almost incredible once you reach the end of the book (such a waste of an opportunity to foreshadow). I dislike most fiction about the Holocaust, as I find the cruelty and suffering is often exploited as an abhorrent plot point, and I felt similarly about the historical sections here. The sentence where Arkady compares hospital food to Auschwitz food was terrible. Some plot points weren’t well developed, like the blackmailer who was inexplicably satisfied, and John somehow knowing about Arkady’s true past. So while it was a compelling read, I’m dissatisfied because it could have been a lot better.