This book was pleasantly subversive, with characters I found myself really rooting for and against, as appropriate. I found myself wondering whether the main characters were going the right way, or whether it would be revealed that they were totally wrong about everything and messing the whole place up.

That said, I made a bad choice in reading this book after the movie came out, when so many other people were reading it and discussing it. I think it might have been a five-star book if I hadn't run into spoilers, which really robbed me of a lot of enjoyment of it.