Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Beautifully written, in places, but a slog to an entirely predictable outcome. The plot is as thin and easy to detect as a bad veneer and the characters are shallow, simplistic and overdrawn. Boris has some gemlike moments, but is much too erudite and long winded for a Ukrainian thug. Hobie is a sweetheart but entirely unbelievable. Theo is a bore and a not very nice one. Pippa seems to exist only as a plot device to be taken up and discarded as needed like a cleaning rag. Some of the descriptions of NYC are among the best I've ever read, but finding them amid the mind numbingly overwritten prose is like panning for gold - lot's of work, not a lot of reward.