Throughout most of the book I kept the quote from an online review: "... but if that is the case, what caused this tight, itchy feeling in my throat while the old soldier was uttering his last words" in mind thinking it's not at all applicable, because I just couldn't feel attachment to any character (in fact whenever any warmer feelings appeared the author either changed narrators or showed how skewed and flawed said character's perception was). Holy shit was I wrong.Ps Very nicely fleshed out characters with differing points of view and motivations, good stuff.