Hmmm... not sure what to say. This was a bizarre book, but that's not to say that I didn't enjoy it. It took me a while to become invested in these characters, but at some point it just happened, and I found myself actually pulling for this supposedly 'unnatural' couple. I had to take the events and characters at a different 'representational' level, rather than take them at face value. When they become embodiments of the ideas of humanity versus the animal world, it became much easier to accept the course of events.