Thanks to goodreads First Reads for my free copy of The Rules of the Tunnel.

Others here have already reviewed the plot pretty extensively - in a nutshell, writer and reporter suffers from depression, medications fail to provide continued help, and after resorting to ECT, finds that he's lost two years of memories.

With that in mind, I think Zeman does an excellent job of portraying how scattered and disorientating his life was during this time. As the reader you're never 100% certain of what he's telling you or how it all fits together, and it really puts you in his shoes. The style is effective, but occasionally frustrating for those of us going, "yes, but what really happened?" That's not the point though, and looking back after finishing his story, I respect that more than did 50 pages in.

Honestly my biggest complaint is the number of typos in this book. This was not an uncorrected ARC, but the actual first edition, and the number of errors really surprised me.