Hard bound books are usually too expensive for me, but then there are those must-haves and you just do not want to wait for the paperback. For the price such a book should be but then also bound reasonable. That was not the case here, since the last quarter of the sides were blended. For the reason I have returned it. Content: It is not a better of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of books. Again, many juxtaposed herlaufende narrative strands, again many abstruse encounters in the past, mixed with the present, again many questions remained unanswered and unresolved matters. On the whole, just "out of round". As with its predecessors, it comes back to me as before, as if loose episodes are spun from book to book, without leading to a conclusion. Nothing against a book series that has many volumes, but only insofar as the individual volumes also tell good stories. Then rather come to the end times. JK Rowling has done excellent by the way - her crime novels I can highly recommend.