Review: Who's writing all of these five-star reviews????
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
I gave the book a three-star out of loyalty to the author after having read all of her other books.  I'm only 28% of the way thru this book and I'm so frustrated with it I could scream.  The constant changing from past to present and from one character's point of view to another's is driving me crazy.  I will muddle my way thru this convoluted pile of story lines but I'm screaming all the way.  Wish the "cast of hundreds" list on subtledemon.com had been updated before I tackled this book so I could look up the some of these people and re-figure how they fit into the story.  It's like the author wrote a book thinking it's the only thing we've been reading so all of the characters are standing out vividly in our minds.  Sorry, but I read 2-5 books a week and keeping this complex of a character system straight without a map is, as I said before, frustrating.  Grinding my teeth, I'm going back to try and read some more of the book.  Hope the ending is as crystal clear as some of the other reviewers have been raving about.