Alive in Necropolis

I just finished reading "Alive in Necropolis" by Doug Dorst. I don't really know how to review a book so I'm just going to say what I want.

He wrote a great beginning for it. It invites you to keep reading and makes you ponder about how an author can write this well. But overall I found the book to be unfocused. It couldn't quite decide how it wanted to go or even what genre it was in.

I'm the type of person who needs closure. While I can deal with things not being "whole" or completely solved at the end, I have to have some sort of closure. Dorst gave me a bit of that at the end, but it seemed like an afterthought. As if he had really intended on finishing the book with the last police report.

And another thing! I didn't like to read the police reports. I had to read them because they contained most of the "action" of the book. They were a bit of a cop-out (no pun intended). And if we're being realistic to the character and what he was going through in the book, he would stop writing these silly police reports when he started drifting away from The Book (the rule book). They weren't easy reads either. I'm not sure of the thought process being this choice.

I'm not a writer, but I think for a first book it would be best to stick to one or two main characters, rather than merely dip into the lives of many characters. There was no order to which character he focused on.

My suggestion would be to skip this book.