None of the motivation for anything made any sense. Wally turns into a murderer in search of a map because he's obsessed with Tam and "their" town? Tam stays behind to protect a secret town instead of raise her daughter? Her dad fires her and ruins her career to protect her from said previous murdering old friend? It read like a bad rendition of national treasure to me. Nearly a DNF.

I did enjoy the historical note at the end of the acknowledgements. But this just showed me how the idea for this had so much more potential than a group of PhDs acting like children and making dumb choices.