Like the setting, like the premise, like the writing, like the characters, BUT... Holy Infodump Batman!

I'm so sorry, because otherwise this book would have been great, but I really didn't like the way it was done. It's as if the characters were protagonists in a Call of Cthulhu RPG game, and succeeded in their Find Hidden, Research and Convince dice rolls. I think I understand what the author was trying to do, which was to establish a richer backstory for what was happening in the book, and I appreciate that. But the way it was handled, as a storytelling device, seemed uninspired and a little lazy. For me personally, the diaries would have fit better as an appendix, and not every detail needed to be explained within the story itself.