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Review title: Ponderous, I can't recommend it.
Product review: A friend let me borrow this book so I felt obligated to finish it, but I would not have otherwise. The pacing is awful. The plot does not really get going until halfway through, but even so, I actually felt the first half was better. The introduction to the setting and the characterization is excellent in the beginning. The ultimate enemy however, introduced far into the book, is comparatively boring. The spurious details and pointless sidetracks also become extremely tiresome in the second half.The author has a talent for description, world building and social commentary, but story arc, pacing, and action leave a lot to be desired. Maybe he has matured in his later books.Great books are hard for me to put down, this one was hard for me to keep reading.
