This turned out to be a reasonably decent psycho killer thriller, playing some similar games as last night's novel, at least in the sense of hiding said killer's identity among the novel's characters. It's not as funny or as pointed in its social commentary, but it's not setting out to be the latter or really much the former. Most of the characters are pretty well-defined and plausible--the psycho killer is a bit on the out-there side, but in novels they often are; it's not extremely clear for most of the novel that the killer is not a survivor of the novel's backstory, which isn't awesome. The novel is told in multiple timelines and from multiple POVs, but it mostly holds together reasonably well, there's some sleight-of-hand about some things but it's not pointless endless stupid twists the way so many modern thriller novels are.
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