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Title: Wildly meandering, progressively incoherent story
Review: Bought this book for a very long plane flight, excited to discover what prompted the comment placed prominently on the cover that it "burns with a byzantine fire". After a struggle of over ten months I finally finished the sprawling and increasingly incoherent story and must admit I'm mystified. Entire paragraphs were completely incomprehensible, with mixed metaphors and comparisons meant to paint a portrait of images and feelings that left me without even a murky idea of what was intended by them. Certainly not worth the time to read, or the $14 I paid for it (which, frankly, is the only reason I felt compelled to finish it). I dislike saying anything so negative, but I'd like to save someone else the pain of feeling invested in finishing over 500 pages of this mess.
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