This was not a fun book to read. The plot had so much promise and was completely snuffed out by the amount of time dedicated to explaining these  bureaucracies and real estate situations. It was a slow moving book, although the sense of time was very hard to follow, and it wasn’t until the last three chapters I could grasp about how long it took for the events of the book to unfold. 

I appreciate the writing and have respect for the author, I think they used an interesting well known literary device. And I did deeply love the cat, Nabu, and the old woman, and the Whatsitsname. I wish the book would’ve just followed them, I think there was just way too many characters and way too much happening. As a reader, a lot of this felt like filler without killer, so boring it was draining. It almost would’ve flowed better as a series of novellas that told each arc start to finish, letting you discover their relations as you went, but… 

This simply wasn’t any of that.