This is quite a difficult book to read. The main ideas - which I won't spoil - are interesting and entertaining, but for me the author follows the wrong narrator. The book would have benefitted from a multi-narrator perspective, or any of the other characters other than the main female protagonist. A lot of the interesting stuff happens off-screen. A lot of her musings are repetitive and uninteresting. She is an unsympathetic character - and whilst she is all the more real for this - it doesn't create the impetus to pull you through the book. In fact, she is purely passive - all the "action" happens around her. The theological discussions are interesting, but feel cobbled together from various sources rather than formulated as one argument. It took me a while to read this...although will still take a while to forget it.