review:
The start was fantastic - more Stephen King and Murakami than cliche. Lots of interesting stuff happening, enough mystery being built up, and a seemingly otherworldly phenomenon at play. The characters are cardboard level 2-dimensional. Badly written, cliche, and just obtuse. And then the second half makes it all seem boring - there is no payoff, it doesn't make any sense for why things in the first half happened, and the end seems like a deux-ex machina hand wavy good ending meant to placate people. Quickly went from I like this to I detest wasting my time with this.,