Utterly mediocre, with unreasonable, sometimes unnecessary, characters that act and think spastically. Characters evade tough choices through the spontaneous discovery of loopholes, courtesy of the ambiguity of major plot points. Only a handful of things actually happen in this book; the rest of it comprises mountains of childish, trivial bickering between the characters or characters psychoanalyzing other characters to make them and the book seem profound and complex, but it just comes off as contrived.