I love when authors play with point of view, but it is a hard thing to do. I love Tana French and she is a wiz at handling both male and females POV, Elizabeth Kostova is not.
In The Swan Thieves, she writes alternating points of view as well as alternating time frames, which is quite the fad lately. The plot has enough intrigue to pull the story along but the points of view are confusing because they all are the same. I guess the fact that each chapter is titled with a character name should have been a big clue that this wasn't her forte. The men sound the same as the women, the current characters the same as those living in the 1800's. The names help to keep things straight but it is a bit of an annoyance so far.
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