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I was constantly frustrated reading this book. It was written well and the premise of the book is interesting-- it takes the idea of immortality and de-mystifies it. However, the main character is extraordinarily flat and the most interesting characters get very little page time (e.g. Marion, Mary Peters). Regarding structure, each chapter alternates between present day and past and the past chapters are so long and the present day ones so short that no concept or character ever gets well developed. I wanted to like this book so much, but I had to force myself to finish it because it was so dull.