Oh wow. 1006 pages. Longest book read this year. Hopefully that will stay that way. Unless I finish reading Inkheart trilogy this year... 

I don't particularly love the story... but I do appreciate the way it's written. The footnotes (read most of them, like 98% probably lol..only got lazy when I was near the end) and the characters - that's a lot. I didn't really have problems with remembering the characters (although I lost track of the names of a certain important character :P). Will I ever read it again? Maybe. 

Decided not to pick a book [randomly] from the other jar in April. I will choose my own beast book. Which most probably will be Inkheart (but there are still possibilities that I'll change my mind later so...).