I discovered this from the Esquire 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. A lot of books I wasn't familiar with in that list, this was one. The books I did know I generally agreed with, and in fact I've now read a couple of others from it as well.

Possible that my 4 star review is slightly unfair, I enjoyed it a lot. I suspect if a book like that came out within the past few years, it would've been broken up into 3 volumes. Call it 4 1/2 stars.

One thing that made me enjoy it, completely unrelated: Love Death & Robots season 3 came out while I was in the middle of it, and somehow Jibaro became my mental palette as I read.