Unfortunately I wasn't grabbed by this at all. It took about half the book for us to be set up, the military working is very poorly executed and the dreams and cutaways lay bricks for future novels. There was no sense of a worthwhile single story to the book, the spiking was never satisfactorily handled and the way in which abnorms fight, despite their supposedly very differing abilities lent the whole work a feeling of unreality that I couldn't overcome to enjoy it at all.