It makes sense why I never finished this book when it came out. It has fantastic world building but quite a dull story. It introduces fantastic potentials for twists and exciting build-ups, but then just let’s them wane out. The big reveals at the end should have come way sooner.

I found the narrator (audio book this time around) and his attempt at a one-man theatre cast extremely tiring. His “female” voices reducing every woman to a hapless damsel in distress almost made me put the book away in the first minutes.