I loved Passenger but was very disappointed with this one. It was very slow and took me forever to get through - I couldn't read more than a chapter at a time. I was very eager to find out what had happened to Etta and Nicolas, but by page 200 or so I found I really couldn't care less. I kept going to page 327 and then just skipped to the end to find out what happened. I found that there was much less information about the eras the characters were in, than in the previous book, yet somehow there was still too much information and the book really dragged on. Probably the most confusing review I will write, but in conclusion I was just incredibly disappointed.