I don't want to spend a lot of time writing about this book since I spent so much reading it.
Well-written? Sure. It's divided up into 3 sections, one for each author, and wordy as hell. The first section was written in a way I found obnoxious and not at all charming. But it was different; this author had her own style. Should I hold it against her?
The symbolism runs rampant, the diction is pretty fabulous in that I think the authors must have deliberately chosen every single word and not left anything at 'good enough.'
But if I were to describe the entire plot out, you would probably wonder why in the hell it's over 800 pages for something so simple.
That first section is indeed a doozy. It must take great talent for writing about nothing to have however many pages it was for writing solely about the painting culture of Tira Virte. I mean, I wondered what these people ate, if they ever listened to music, if they had neighboring countries, etc. All I got was a bit about their religion and history as it applied to the main characters' family. And more painting.
We got into more of that in the next two parts, but not quite enough to justify the length, I felt.
Especially when the characters weren't very relatable or interesting. The main character, our anti-hero Sario, is pretty much a jerk, but the only constant person in the hundreds of years spanned, since he has found a way basically to make himself immortal. So you keep having to find new people to like, to latch on to. Not a huge problem, but like I said I didn't particularly like any of them.
This book is what I would call 'beautifully' written, but I still didn't exactly like it.
Maybe I should learn to be a better reviewer instead of blathering on about my preferences. Are there technical things I should be looking for? I think I'll try to find that out.
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