Everything others have said holds true for me. I borrowed this on a 7 day loan from the library and had to check it out for another week as it was taking me so long to wade through it. I kept nodding off! I have just finished it, thankfully. I kept hoping something would happen - but the protagonists just kept on agreeing with each other ad bloody nauseum. It was a very odd story indeed. No plot, no character development, no apparent themes, nothin'.