The entire story is derivative of about two dozen books and movies without any additional insight.

Those previous ideas were Frankensteined together in a new form, but just like the monster who was less than the sum if his parts, so is this book.

It is also unnecessarily brutal and disturbingly gory. There should be a warning on the cover.

The premise is absurd.

The gimmick of explaining what will happen in fifteen minutes and then going back and explaining it in detail gets old quickly. There is no advantage of telling this particular story in this non-chronological fashion.

The story seeks some sort of supernatural salvation without God, unsuccessfully.

I found nothing redeeming about this work, It wasn’t entertaining on any level, and I almost bailed a third of the way in, but I had a long drive ahead and hoped it would improve. The ending was anticlimactic and as unsatisfactory as the whole.

The narrator was miscast. He would be an excellent choice for many nonfiction works, or even comic fiction, but here his light and flighty tone came across as inappropriate for this very dark subject matter. His various female voices were identical and silly. Undoubtedly a talented reader, but this was wrong for him.

Overall, it was an unnecessary indulgence.