Swear on This Life

I don't really know how this book is so well rated. I'll start off by saying something positive though- it is a quick read and I did not find it boring in a large sense. The premise is interesting. I guess I was just expecting something different.

However, for a book full were many of the characters are writers, how are they all so dreadfully dull? The book inside of the book is very elementary and just lackluster. The bones of this story could have been interesting, but the execution just was not there for me. The dialogue was very robotic to me, and contrived. The characters (especially the present day ones) are very surface-y and have such little depth that it makes it hard to illicit any real emotional response to a book trying to be very emotional.