The cover of this is way too creepy--I don't think I want to be anywhere near anything so viscerally repulsive.
The opening just sort of piles on the fantasy-book wordiness and melodrama and purple prose and "world-building" hokiness. It's all a bit off-putting.
The opening just sort of piles on the fantasy-book wordiness and melodrama and purple prose and "world-building" hokiness. It's all a bit off-putting.