Well, a few months later, I have finally finished this one. I have to say, I enjoyed reading it. I mean the words, the sentences, it was just really good to read, just lovely language and all that.

But then, my rating is bumped down a few notches because at the end, I feel like I barely understand what happened in the book or have much understanding of the (vast) cast of characters. Some of that is probably deliberately unresolved and unexplained but lots of it I feel like I would have to go back and and reread parts of it four or five times to figure it out.

At the end of the day, I liked it but it doesn't seem like it is worth that much trouble to figure it all out, so I'll just have to live with the mysteries.