The characters were a little boring, yet interesting in their own unique ways. I will say my favourite character was Claudia, who ever knew that a child could be that evil. Although Louis was narrating, I found him to be quite boring not in the way that he wanted to be "good" but because he never seemed to do anything.
The lack of action on top of the heavy imagery is what brought this book down for me I got to page 200 and just couldn't go any further.