This one, I finished a few weeks ago. It took me a good deal of time, because to be honest, I thought the book started out glacially. And then...it continued that way. I had a hard time maintaining interest in the story, even though I thought the writing was quite good. But I was pretty caught up in it by the last third or so, and ended up liking the whole of it better than I thought. Perhaps it's just the strangeness of going from a series of children's books to one very, very grim book for adults that took some getting used to.
