This was my second or third time trying to read this. The first 10-20 pages are so much like a short story I started writing back when I was in high school that I really had a hard time getting past the similarities. Once I did though, it was basically nothing like that old story of mine.

It felt like I was reading this for a long time, but I guess it was just a month. It definitely wasn’t a page turner, at least not for me, but there were some good surprises, and I liked the story well enough, even if the characters never really felt compelling to me.

I am tempted to go right into the sequel, but I’ll probably read some other stuff first.