DNF 43/254pg
The writing quality is just poor. The character and narrator "voices" waffle between self-serious, somewhat period-accurate and a bored, modern speech pattern. It's full of run-on sentences needing to be re-read several times. The worldbuilding operates by name-dropping, which, when combined with the blur of 4-5pg chapters, leaves an atmosphere neither for interest nor tension to grow. I really wanted to like this, but it quickly and consistently bucked me off the saddle.