I considered giving this 4 stars, but the aspects that I felt let it down were, I think, me rebelling against a book that often feels too real. Deets' death was so mundane, Ellie's death happened off-screen, there wasn't a dramatic ending, Blue Duck was caught almost accidentally, Call didn't change outwardly, lots of stories were left unfinished, etc. I'm unused to stories in which there's a realistic level of drama and it was a little disappointing, I suppose. However, the characters were so incredibly well fleshed out, the book so often hilarious and heartbreaking and nail-biting that I wish it hadn't ended. I'll certainly be buying the sequel, and maybe the prequels. There are relatively few books that I re-read, but I can certainly see this becoming one of them.