Night Film

More like 4 and 3 quarters stars. I am not sure what to say about this book other than I have no doubt that I will still be thinking about it twenty years from now. I feel as though I just walked ten miles on a road I didn't know existed, horrified by what I saw along the way, only to reach a locked gate at the end. I am too tired to turn back.
I'm so impressed by the writing. Honestly, I don't know how Pessl sketched out these characters so well only to have them all still be mysteries in the end.
I don't want to compare this to anything (really, what could I compare it to? The Historian? House of Leaves? A very, very dark Night Circus?) Nothing works. It's that original.
It's not for the light reader or the faint of heart. It's in turn mystifying, intriguing, and way too long.
I highly recommend it to the reader who has read everything. Because they haven't-not until they read this.