Even though I didn’t give this 5 stars, I’d still recommend it to pretty much anyone. The structure was frustrating at times, especially when I was turning the book sideways and flipping back and forth through the same 20 pages and reading 60 pages of appendix in the middle of a chapter. But honestly I loved it, because my frustration exactly mirrored that of the characters in the labyrinth, so it was all very meta. There are like 5 layers of meta in this book, so if you like that sort of thing then I would DEFINITELY recommend it.

I honestly really enjoyed the number of different voices in the book and how the entire thing was presented. The concept of it being an edited version of an annotated manuscript analyzing a documentary that doesn’t exist. Citing hundreds of sources that don’t exist. It was extremely well done, I really felt like that’s what I was reading rather than a novel.

The main reason I only gave it 4 stars is because on the whole the ending wasn’t really satisfying. It wasn’t a bad ending by any means, but I was hoping for either more of a resolution or a more thought-provoking open ending. The entire book was very thought-provoking, but when it got to the end it was almost like I didn’t know where to go from there. There was too much information but also not enough. To be fair, I think that may have been the author’s intention, and in that case he did a very good job.