Wow, this is a stupid garbage-fire of a book. Not only is the story so graspingly convoluted that it's literally impossible to keep track of, not only is one of the POV characters being deceptive about his involvement with the situation--in third-person narration, where it's not a matter of what he's not telling you; the author switches POV characters mid-chapter, as though he's writing in the nineteenth century or something, and there are errors of grammar and usage (commas around one end of parentheticals but not the other; at least one instance of principals when the author clearly meant principles; at least one occasion where there are two apostrophes back to back, in either a contraction or a possessive) that are frankly fucking bizarre to find in a book from a major publisher. I guess it's piling on to point out that the characters are barely differentiated and still manage to be inconsistent and incoherent.
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