In one of the blurbs on this book used the phrase roller coaster to describe the twists and turns. To me, these get boring and predictable. The second part of this book is a retelling/reinterpretation of Genesis and, to my mind, not a particularly insightful one. I do not find the basic premises of this book and its predecessor interesting. The bickering between the siblings is annoying. I can see why the book might have offended some particularly shallow and overly sensitive readers. But it is not controversial in any particularly interesting way. ( )