Sorry kids, no feet.

It wasn't great. It wasn't terrible. If you find you want to read this book, I won't stop you but I will warn you there are other books out there. Books that are probably more deserving of your time.

The characters in this book were blah. They were just there because a story requires people. I didn't care what happened to them. They could have all tragically died at the end and I don't think it would have really bothered me.

What did save this book was the obvious knowledge the author has of 17th century Amsterdam. The look at how the "stock market" worked before Wall Street was excellent but it wasn't enough to make a great book.