Yes, this. Neal Stephenson pulls you into the hallway of mirrors. Joe Hill does it in Horns. Kafka does it in The Metamorphosis (one morning, a guy turns into a bug! Go with me here!). Nathan Ballingrud does it in "You Go Where It Takes You," when he asks the reader to see what Toni the waitress is seeing, the man who sheds his skin.

Hawkins wants us to go on this crazy journey with him, but for me it didn't work, because he hadn't made me care about the characters at all. There's some dazzling writing, but. When I finished the book, I was like, that's it? What was the point?

OH WELL SOMETHING BETTER UP NEXT WHATEVER IT IS :DDD