This book was awesome! At first I thought I was not going to get into it, and it would be just another book I never find the time to finish. But then something happened and I actually started to care about the characters, Yes even the ones with Bugs for heads. I started thinking about it while I was at work, looked around for minutes to steal to read "just a chapter". Not to put too fine a point on it but ,I stayed up until 4 this morning just so I could find out how it all ended. It ended just as it had to, not good for some but alot better for others. I am still thinking about the ones it did not turn out so great for and wondering,like they are long lost friends , what is going to happen to them. I am sort of sad that I am through with it, and now am onto the next book of choice. My only consolation is there a other books, not the same characters, but more glimpses into Mr. Meiville's worlds!!