I put off reading this book for almost a year, and after finally reading it, I didn't find myself pleasantly surprised. It was pretty much exactly what I expected it to me. For one thing, the style of writing really bothered me (there was too much passive voice and it didn't suit the tense at all) and I disliked almost all of the characters. There were so many of them that you didn't really get close to any as an individual. I didn't really care what happened to the characters or the overall ending of the book, and was unclear on the whole concept of endgame to begin with. Even though they said the word Endgame almost 100 times, they never really clearly gave a description as to what it was.