Title: I wanted to like it...
Product review: At first I was totally enraptured by the book with its innovative ideas and odd socio-political structure. However, the book wore me down over time because of two major problems which kept cropping up.1) The author is constantly 'fast-forwarding' his story with no warning what-so-ever. One minute, two characters are entering a desert to find somebody. The next, one is some kind of monk and the other is a warlord. Say what?!?!2) The coincidences are extraordinary. The characters are all doing their own things, wandering back and forth across the continent, yet every time one of them is in a city they manage to accidentally run into each other. I can't really go into the other coincidences without giving away parts of the story to those of you who want to read this.400 pages into the book, I've decided to toss it aside and forget it. I would advise you to pass on this book before you even hit page one.
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