Okay, I read this book a couple of years ago, upon recommendation, so I am going off of what I remember of the book.

What I remember is this: will do in a pinch. If you are bored, and need something light and breezy and fun to read, something with a fantastical premise and lots of magic, but something that's not Harry Potter, this might be it. It's kind of like a conspiracy-mystery-Harry Potter novel for adults.

I found the premise interesting, about fiction and "real" life interspersing, and the questioning of what's "real", and there were a lot of opportunities for truly interesting introspections and extrapolations regarding meta-fiction and reality. Sadly, most of these introspections and extrapolations will happen only in your own head, and of your own accord, as the book doesn't really explore such above-mentioned ideas, but the premise of the book merely presents the impetus for thinking about such ideas. So, it's good in that way, but as to content...okay, not totally bad, there are fun, interesting elements, but I did get bored at times.

Oh, and the writing style was somewhat tedious to me (maybe that's why I got bored) -- rather wan and lacking. Not particularly impressive. Bottom line, this would be a good beach book, or if you're really interested in ideas of meta-fiction and/or the authenticity of "reality", and just need something easy that'll help prompt your thinking about these ideas.