From time to time I like to step out of my comfort zone in my reading... and this book is clearly a whole different world than the ones I'm used to... I almost stopped it several times because, honestly, you have to hang on for the first half... but in the end, it still deserves 3 stars because the writing and the story are both very original. The author succeeded in making me want to discover the rest of this story that can't really be described... and he knew how to immerse me in a culture very different from mine while making me want to know more (especially to understand what is part of "real" legends and what comes out of the author's pure imagination). I don't think I will read other stories by this author but I would like to salute his originality!