This was a really weird book. I'll say upfront it was really well-written and it's clear the author is talented. Still, I don't know if it was a good experience or a bad experience - but it was certainly an experience. I read it in one day, so it had that going for it. I picked it up because it was in a "so you like the secret history" type recommendation list. Maybe I would have thought it was less weird and I would have liked it more if I had known what I was getting into. I was expecting a slow murder mystery or boarding school memoir. But what I got instead was like a surreal fever dream? I took the plot literally and maybe it wasn't literal? But if it wasn't, then I don't know what the author was going for here. So overall conflicting thoughts, and I won't forget it, but I can't say that I liked it.