Reading this book is like walking around in a really cool, well curated diorama. It is great fun to hang out in this world and soak up the ambience and all the details surrounding the cult of reclusive director Stanislav Cordova. His daughter's death is investigated by disgraced journalist Scott McGrath, aspiring actress and coat check girl Nora Halliday and lovelorn drug dealer Hopper. There was obviously a lot of care and creativity put into constructing this story. Everything simultaneously feels authentic and other worldly. The alternative film history is awesome and the tone of the book is appropriately very film noir. 
 The stylistic gimmick of including documents in text, such as magazine and blog posts, photos etc really comes off as well. These really enrich the text. 
 My only nitpick is I thought this had one too many endings.