I really enjoyed Roberts' writing style. The wordplay he uses throughout this book is incredible. It has such fantastic elements of metafiction, allusions, and use of language.

While I greatly enjoyed his language and the philosophical nature of this book, the plot was a little convoluted. I wish the timeline of Graham's life was more clear and I did not enjoy that due to Graham's stay in the woods, the reader was denied a knowledge of what occurred politically around the bêtes and their existence. I think it could have been very interesting to see exactly how the legal status of bêtes unfolded and when the war started. But alas, due to a plot point, this was not something I got to learn about.