This book has been sitting on my shelf for a while now and I finally picked it up. I was a little wary because my mom hated this book and couldn't even finish it. But I'm glad I finally read it. This was my first Frazen novel and it was quite good. The story was pretty inters testing, although I found certain viewpoints/sections better than others. At times, the dialogue was a little pretentious between characters, as nuclear disarmament talk and inner character monologues tend to be.

I think the reason my mom didn't like it (besides the occasion graphic descriptions of sex and violence) was this is not a book where you can only read a couple pages a night. I finished the book in a week, reading 100 pages at a time and with that, I found myself truly invested in the characters and storyline.