In some ways this is a really fragmented collection. The art styles vary, especially in the first comic collected here. The story moves in non-linear ways, jumps from character to character, and there's one comic in the middle where there's not really a plot at all, just a series of weird events as more people are drawn into what's happening with the keys. (Which is very vague, I know, but I'm trying not to give away anything here!)

It's all so fragmented, and yet it just works. Honestly, the thought of how many times this had to be written and rewritten to balance all the elements out just makes me shudder, because this is such a complex little puzzle of a book, and integrating all its aspects - the plot and the character development and the little emotional beats that it hits on a regular basis - must have been diabolically difficult. I admired it as much as I enjoyed it, is what I'm saying. I did think that final twist, with what happened to Bode, was a trifle overdone, but still. This is so much better than Haunted Heist, the (unrelated) comic collection I read a couple of days ago. It's just in an entirely different league.