A quick read but at the end of the day never quite felt the sense of “the game is afoot.” Montgomery does a fantastic job of fleshing out a very large cast of characters– I was a bit worried at the outset when they were all being described without names, but as soon as our narrator (Stephen) learns who they are, we very quickly learn who they are as well. But each of their motivations lacks just a touch of depth such that there are […]