J.M. Sidorova

Unfortunately, this is not a good book. the plot is long and boring and the writing style, while nice, does not help the story. It lacked any real interest and grew worse about 100 pages in. It had a few good points but by page 321 I gave up and skimmed until the last chapter. That was okay, but probably one of the better parts of the book. A highlight of all the good parts but I was honestly glad it was a few pages after reading everything.

I really liked the beginning and the ending, but the middle was very confusing, both in plot and in narrative.

could not keep going. Beginning was remarkable.

Downloaded because it was free and it had the potential to be interesting (moreso than the novel, anyway--I admit I didn't have any intention to read the novel, and still don't). Very thin story, and neither setting nor characters are fleshed out enough to take up the slack. Bleak, bitter, pointless.