Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?
First Person (Central Narrator)
This book gives us a first person narrator… with a twist. Like, a major twist. Gabriel, after all, is actually also Finnigan—and yes, that means our narrator has a split personality. Or that our narrators are the same person. We'll let you decide how to present it.
The thing is, though, that we don't know this until the very end, at which point it's pretty much the literary equivalent of having the rug pulled out from under us. The whole freaking book gets called into question in the moment when we realize that nothing has been as it seems the entire time we've been reading.
So while Gabriel's about as central as a narrator comes—he's both of the major characters, after all—he's also about as unreliable as narrators come. As the book ends, then, we find ourselves feeling less certain about what we've just read than we ever do as the story unfolds, feeling toyed with and manipulated and perhaps a bit like one of Finnigan's victims. Which, of course, we kind of are.