I feel bad giving this book such a low rating when it appears so many others enjoyed it. It was the writing style that brought it down for me. The sudden changes in perspective, third person omnipresent, first person, third person limited, and then 'newspaper' articles, and wow, it just ended up doing my head in.

I can't help but wonder how much was real, and how much is Phillips' imagination coming into play. I think if this book was written in a much more linear form, and the perspective wasn't continuously changing, then it would be easier to pick it apart and decide where fiction started and non-fiction ended. Ultimately, I just found this book hard to enjoy when the writing seemed to be all over the place. Instead of appearing artistic, it just seemed messy.