This was a great book, front to back. Dumas creates an eerie sense of place in a great city (Edinburgh) and and then fills it with brilliant characters in the doomed Grayson, his fellow students and his family. The juxtaposition between the first-person narrative (slowly spiraling into madness- or something worse) and the objective, retrospective accounts (posed as non-fiction) are expertly woven. I enjoyed every bit of this book and I look forward to more from this author.