I did not like this book and also did not finish it. I took it home from the library because it was advertised as historian fiction, set in The Hague, a Dutch city. This seems funny to me, because I am Dutch myself. Somehow I couldn't connect to the story, and after reading till page 78 I decided to toss it.

The main male character is kind of whiny and weird about women, desperate. The story itself is not coherent enough, lots of pages are just a summery of things and not making sense as a whole.