Ghostwritten

After the mild letdown of Number 9 Dream I didn't have high expectations for this, but it was surprisingly good. At least if you have a brain like mine that is obsessed with finding the interconnections between the stories, it's very satisfying as a puzzle-box. I thought I had it figured out at about the halfway mark, and was feeling quite smug, but it went in a different direction entirely. This one feels more closely connected to Cloud Atlas / The Bone Clocks / Slade House than many of his other novels, and it was pretty cool to see how many of those later themes are present even in this first novel. Four stars because I'm still not sure about that last section ???