Title: What, exactly, is the point?
Product review: Almost completely unreadable. The author's prose obscures the landscape rather than describes it. The characters are stock figures from role playing games. The rhythm of the prose never varies, always landing on the downbeat. The author doesn't seem to want to share his vision as much as he wants to impress the reader with his vocabulary. He neglects the purpose of storytelling.The novel is filled with scenes of vividly described violence that do not further the plot, and sometimes characters seem to exist simply to provide bodies for the author to mutilate. The reader is left with a hazy landscape populated by two-dimensional characters that die in awful ways for no discernible reason than to acquire experience points.I agree with another reviewer - this novel should never have gotten past the editor.
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