I feel I got a really shitty translation from the library, done by someone who clearly isn't a native English speaker. Will go looking for another, possibly in German.

I gave up at around 30%. This was just too long-winded, self-pitying and rambling and, frankly, boring. I have no idea how I managed to read this as a teenager. Nope.

DNF @ 60%.

I love the worldbuilding, but there's just nothing happening in this book, except for people talking about and explaining things. Just characters telling each other about the world, but since they do nothing, I don't really know who they are and why I should care about them. It's all tell, don't show and sadly, I did not enjoy one chapter of it. 

Two stars for the worldbuilding, which is, as I said, excellent.