The characterization is great you feel like these are kids you grew up with. They recruit a younger member into the Society, with the hope that his help will allow them to fight the evil. The book has a straight-line plot. The author's intent is to entertain. The background is detailed and affects the atmosphere.
Characterization focuses on several characters of different sexes whose lives are intertwined.
The characters are stereotypes we recognize immediately. The book is serious, challenging, sober, formal, solemn. The ending is ambiguous. An English serial killer who escapes from prison and flys to New Orleans, where he meets his true love, another serial killer. They plot to kill and eat a local drug dealer.