Book of All Hours Vellum: The Book of All Hours, Book 1, (Paperback)

from gcoupe

I gave up on this after a few hundred pages. There were flashes of storytelling but I got fed up of the endless repetition and riffs on the same themes that never seemed to get anywhere. A triumph of style over substance, but this style is not what I look for in a book. After we had the retelling...

from pagemasterZee

First off, yes i struggled through this book and yes i finished it. When i test out authors i usually suffer threw a few of their books before i make a decision - this one i'm good after one. Too much time jumping. The characters are intriguing and barable. But you never get into the book cause a...

from adpaton

I tried with this book - I really did try. I went so far as to leave it in the car so that when I was waiting and bored I'd have no alternative but to read it and, I hoped, get into it. It never happened though. A dense, non-linear story with not much plot and constantly changinf points of view, ...

from mzonderm

This book was actually painful to read. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't just put it down. It was like reading modern art or listening to modern music, which, if you're into it, is fine, but if you're not, you just see something meaningless or hear disharmonies, that's only art or music because...

from colbud

An unruly mess of bad ideas mashed together and wrapped in angst-ridden narration and meaningless dialogue. Duncan sat down and said, "I'm going to take every idea I have about the world and scribble it on little pieces of paper, lay them in order while blindfold, mix them up for good measure, an...