Pseudo-epistolary sci-fi told through interviews, transcripts, and journal entries, so I THOUGHT this would be awesome. Instead, it was generally competent but still fell flat for me.

The content of this book basically is:

Report: This crazy, unexplainable and tragic thing happened. We have no idea how or why.

Journal Entry From Someone In The Alien Technology Experiment Bunker: OH NO. We did some stuff and caused a crazy tragedy :( again :(

If you rinse and repeat a couple times, then yeah. That's the whole thing. And every time this happened it was completely, easily predictable.

The beginning of the book starts out with a whole lot of alluring mystery. What is this mysterious magical statue? What does it do? What is it for? Aliens??? But the more the mystery is unraveled, the more I lost interest. And eventually when the plot began to revolve around international relations, somewhere in there I lost my suspension of disbelief completely. North Korea? The United Nations? Come on.