I'm not blown away, as many reader's seem to be. This is a huge, sprawling epic. Yeah, it kind of comes together in the end, but the ties between the characters are so tenuous, I wondered, why bother? The murders (fiction based on the hundreds of women murdered in Juarez) are so important as a global issue, and even though a huge portion of the story is devoted to their details, I feel like they were minimized by so many extraneous subplots.