I have been a little disappointed in reference to criticism .... I do not like the authors who adopt a character, by putting in "skin", their life, their head, their time, their feelings ... For me it is a usurpation, although it's a fiction writer. A fair documentation on Vermeer, his time; his family constitution. But this novel is incredibly slow, I 'ny have not found any real interest, it is unclear whether Griet is so deliciously evil, playing a strange game, or if it's Vermeer. So I bored, and that is not what I'm looking into reading ..;