Compelling! Bittersweet! Neat and tidy! It was a bold decision to use the Great War as a backdrop for this tale, but it works really well. Threads were arrayed and then untangled in an engaging way. I found the character of Faland just so interesting, a devil-like entity that feeds off of the narrative of misery and therefore, in WWI, has to scavenge for the husks of traumatized survivors amidst the newly-industrialized carnage. Flavorless food for a hedon.