For most of the read you could tell it was trying to go somewhere, it just took a lot of pages to get there. The characters where kind of all over the place, couldn't really see what their motivation was for anything. Thinking about it now, the story lines just sort of ended. Ended, not concluded. He thanks his editor for telling him his first draft didn't make any sense. I think more drafts were still needed. It wasn't horrible, just not great.