author: Stephen Hunt
name: Elaine
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2010/01/28
date added: 2010/02/03
shelves: fantasy, fiction, sci-fi
review:
I’d like to give this one 3.5 stars, if that were possible. Great writing, vivid description, strange weird settings and characters, plus an ending that left me thinking for a long time. (What is a perfect society? Can its principles (or stuff) be "borrowed" by another society?)
On the other hand, I found myself very often wishing I could remember more of Hunt’s previous book; lots of little details that I think would have been more powerful if I could remember them, and that seems like a weakness of the book. Definitely not quite a standalone.
Still, totally worth reading!