I fell in love with the cover and then I slowly fell in love with the book. It took three times to get hooked because I started then stopped and restarted because I couldn't stop thinking about this book.
The style of writing is amazing and hypnotic, I was fascinated by how the writer crafted the phrases and fleshed the characters.
The main issue was the pace: it's slow and this is not a book you can read fast because it takes quite a huge number of pages before something happen and it's not only a a telling of January growing up.
The style of writing made come back and after a while I got the prize, the book started to be more engrossing and then I was hooked.
Take your time, savour the words and you're in for a wonderful travel in an amazing world.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.