Well written and delivered, but kind of meh

All the way through I found myself enjoying this, right up until the end where I started thinking about it more.
This entire book spans just over a day, which is hard to keep in mind throughout it. But it does explain why so little happens in it.
By the end, it suddenly dawns on you that from a narrative perspective almost nothing important to the plot has happened, and the cast is saved by a miracle of sorts at the end which really just felt shunted in.

I felt like this should have been the book to help explain the Chimera way of thinking. There were multiple excellent opportunities, but that still didn't happen.
There were multiple Chimera whose introduction was ripe for exploration so that they could be more than blank enemies or random sympathisers.
The sympathetic contrasted the callous just on the surface because if you wanted to look deeper about why some were hateful and callous to Humans and others were sympathetic, you wouldn't get anywhere.

And story by story, Clayton is feeling less and less like the Clayton introduced at the beginning, and it's not really explained why.
He's feeling increasingly generic and I'm having increasing difficulty in empathising with his perspective.

I do hope that the one single point set up in this story is expanded well in the next and final book so that I don't end up feeling like the original narrative set up was a waste of time.

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