Elysium

A strangely scattered narrative that does finally come together in the end. The recursive situations woven around shifting characters was confusing at first but, after a while, begins to make sense due to the underlying consistencies threaded throughout the various vignettes. Hints abound but full clarity does not arrive until the book is wrapping up.

It was refreshing to find such a completely realized tale presented in less than 200 pages. That's a welcome rarity in these days of massively verbose novels.