To be honest, I feel like a total idiot for listening to all those reviews and buying this book. Within the first 100 pages, I knew it wasn't my cup of tea at all. I very nearly DNF'd it because the pacing in the first act is agonisingly slow. However, it gained some serious speed towards the latter half, and I found myself unable to put it down. Even though it's not the genre I usually go for, I was just dying to see how it all panned out, so I stuck with it until the end.
To be fair, the plot is completely unpredictable—there’s no way you could ever guess where it’s going. That said, once I finished, I felt it went a bit off the rails. Perhaps that’s because I’d gone into it thinking it was a murder mystery, which it really isn't. Overall, while the second half was genuinely gripping, it’s just not my sort of thing.