Whoever edited this book didn't do a great job. I read this after just reading Shadow Divers and the difference in writing skills are considerable. The author didn't do a good job of figuring out how to lay out the stories he wanted to tell. He'd go off on tangents in a jarring way that was off-putting, or expand on minutia that wasn't really pertinent to the main thread of the book. It was hard to become engrossed the stories as a result, unlike Shadow Divers. I would just skim quickly through pages when the narrative would digress and by the last half of the book, I was mainly reading it because, hell, I bought it. Do yourself a favor and skip it.