Parts of this one were more difficult to follow. The author's tenancy to insert minor characters as narrators and to tell whole parts of the story in dialogue from a second hand party is definitely an interesting mode of story telling. History happens to the everyman, I understand that. When a story is sometimes told that way it can be a lot to try to keep up with, considering so many of these everymen die or are never heard from again on our characters' journeys.

Oh, and uh,

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it's a little rapey and the author doesn't seem to recognize that in the text. I'm so very conflicted on how to rate this one. The rest of the book was a solid three stars. The end... a solid negative three stars because no one owes anyone else sex for any reason. EVER.