There are parts of this book that are absolutely brilliant. There are setting details that make me marvel and want to visit this world and see it more closely. If only all the excess fat of this book wasn't there.
This book is more experiment than anything. The author chooses to write in a purposely alien way of speaking emulating an old fashioned but unique way of speaking and while this works okay when describing alien features of the world, most of the book is describing the romance between the protagonist and his love.
I think they are horrible to and for each other, and if I could speak to them I would advise both to break their romance off immediately and go work on themselves, but that is not really the point.
The point is the experimental use of language gets irritating after a while and doubly so when the protagonist is expressing his undying love.
If the author was to take most of the romantic plot out, use a more natural writing style with perhaps small snippets of the experimental language here and there I think this book would be a favorite of mine, but as it stands, I did not enjoy it.
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