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Am I the only one that found this book disappointing? This book traces the owners of a Vermeer painting backwards through time. The result is quite choppy, more like a set of short stories than a novel. I actually had a difficult time caring about the first several owners. Maybe I was tired, but I also had a difficult time tracing the painting's transfer of ownership until it came to the last few. I did enjoy the last several chapters more, but by then I felt it was too late.

In some ways, this seemed a typical "form over function" book. I think the author was pleased with the idea of tracing a painting backwards through time and was so tied to the idea, she couldn't recognize that the not-so-great result.