A pretty decent book. The prose was beautiful, with the final few pages being so well-written and the book was entertaining as a whole. I thought the switches in time worked well to keep the book tense. The main letdown were the characters and their relationships. For a book that is so character-driven, each character felt too two-dimensional. Though David was likely the most complex, he was also quite unlikeable, so I found it hard to care about his relationship with Giovanni or Hella. The latter two also came across as very stereotypical. The various discussions of gender and sexuality and love throughout the book were interesting, but it often felt like the characters were only there to represent a point in any given argument, rather than being real, fleshed out people. As I result, I didn’t find many of the emotional scenes particularly moving as I had no attachment to the characters. Overall, I’m glad I read the book but it wasn’t as remarkable as I had expected.