 This theme is echoed in the relationship between the book's author and his narrator from whom he attempts to distinguish himself and to whom he attributes "sly hints that he is me" and "clever schemes to take the story away from me".In a review of "God Game", John C. Bunnell described the novel as " a lively and absorbing yarn blending elements of intrigue, adventure, and comedy.Greeley's wide-ranging eye for detail reveals itself in character
descriptions and in a very thoroughly created game milieu".