This book took me like four shabbatot to read and it's a testament to Gladstone that I not only finished it, but gave it a four.
My bias against the American novel and, you know, the car probably got in the way even though I could see from the beginning the ways in which Gladstone was playing with archetypes. Well, some of them.
But also like it was peak 21st century complex fantasy in all the right ways.