What a complete waste of time. Here's what happens: You heft this big book with its mysterious looking photo on the front and start reading. Half way through you realize the plot has gone NOWHERE. All you've gotten is 250 pages of character development and dialog. Zero plot. Zero intrigue. Zero mystery. No excitement and not a clue where this story is heading. It's like Meltzer was writing and couldn't figure out where to take the story. Finally 3/4 of the way through the book you get a glimpse of the plot but it's not until the last 20-30 pages that you actually figure out what the hell is going on! Then it wraps itself up in the last two paragraphs almost instantly! The whole book could've been wrapped up in 150 pages.