There's a lot of good stuff here. The bells, particularly, are really interesting and I liked the world of the Old Kingdom. But I rather feel as if I should have liked this more than I did - and I liked it well enough. I wish there were a word for when you just don't emotionally connect with an otherwise decent read - not because of the story itself, but because I quite simply didn't care about anyone in it. Unbalanced, perhaps? Great world-building, but the rest of it didn't quite live up to the same standards for me.