That took much longer than I thought it would. Usually, the longest it ever takes me to read a novel of any size is two weeks—three if it was written before 1900 or so. The reason it probably took this long was because I had so much other stuff going on, particularly my NaNo project. I’ve been writing during the time I normally read. It’s thrown me all out of whack.
But, at last, I am done!
So, I’ve already mentioned that this book is pretty wild, plot-wise. It incorporates Shakespeare, Homer, science fiction, and so on. I was hooked all the way through (as much as I could be given my time constraints). I enjoyed the sheer originality of it all.
The only problem I have, and I notice this the closer I got to the end as all the plot threads started to wind up, was with how convenient things got. People showed up just when they were needed. People got saved right in the nick of time mostly through luck or a really convenient set of circumstances. The closer I got to the end, the more frequently I found myself thinking, “Wow, these people have amazing luck.”
But for all the coincidences, I really enjoyed this duology and would recommend it to anyone who likes metafiction or science fiction.