This was a poorly written good story.

I probably would have given it four stars if the author would have used such exotic writing conventions as quotes when people speak, chapter breaks, verbs in more than half the sentences, and character names (at several points it's impossible to tell who he's talking about or who's speaking). Or if he wouldn't have used double line breaks between just about every paragraph, even when there was no time jump between them. Or if there weren't long annoying paragraphs describing the most mundane actions. Or if some of the more poetic lines didn't seem completely out of place (and artificial). And though one of the praising blurbs about the book said something about his wonderful vocabulary, I found it distracting because some of the words he uses probably haven't been used by anyone else in the English-speaking world for 50 years. I am amazed that this book was published as-is.