Point of View

The novel is narrated in the third-person present by an omniscient narrator who has access to any character, but chooses to enter into only one character’s point of view during each chapter. The narrator also selectively reveals information from the chosen character’s point of view, while keeping other information, often highly pertinent to the story, hidden until a proper revelatory moment. The prologue is told through the point of view of Daniel. The narrator reports Daniel’s feelings about the hotel he designed, but fails to delve into his history to reveal that he once raped a woman. Instead, Daniel is presented as the victim of a faceless killer, and the reader is given no indication that Daniel is anything other than an innocent victim.

After the prologue, a press release about the opening of Le Sommet is presented. The article seems curated...