Review: Don't tell us, show us
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
The writer has a kernel of a good story with intriguing characters, but the kernel remains unpopped, buried as it is under layers and layers of ruminative exposition going on in the head space of multiple characters. The story started out promisingly when Lewis was a child and in the first few scenes, but subsequently, the author relied on the far easier (and much more boring) technique of telling us what each character is thinking and what their backstory is by way of exposition. Chapters of exposition when nothing happens. Cannot recommend.