Talyn

Korre #1

by Holly Lisle

In a world where technology is magic, and war is the only way of life, Talyn is a soldier, one of thousands trained from childhood to protect her country from the monarchist Eastil, who would take away the personal freedoms of the Tonk.

Talyn long ago embraced her fate: to die in battle. This is a war of magic, not of swords, and the battles are fought deep inside the View, a place where the magic inherent in everything and everyone is actualized. The soldiers--on both sides--can bring this magic to the physical plane and use it to destroy houses, fields, and people.

But the Feegash came from across the world, and demanded to be allowed to negotiate peace between the Eastil and the Tonk for the sake of the rest of the world. Their success meant Talyn was out of a job, and at a loss for what to do with her life.

Rather than follow most of her fellow soldiers to jobs in other parts of the world, Talyn stayed with her family in her town--and there she is seduced by a Feegash diplomat. With him she experiences a dark side of herself that she hadn't even imagined, and learns a new kind of magery.
And she discovers the mistreatment of Eastil prisoners of war, still in Tonk hands, and weighs her life against saving theirs.

It's a matter of honor--and her honor will be challenged again and again as she slowly discovers that what the Feegash have brought with them was not peace but an overwhelming oppression, and an evil so insidious no one noticed it until it was too late.

But if Talyn can hone her use of the Feegash flesh-magery, she can turn their own magic back against them. With the help of one of the Eastil prisoners, she might be able to use it to save the Tonk andthe Eastil, and defeat the Feegash once and for all... if it doesn't destroy her from the inside out first.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Magic, Adult, High Fantasy

528 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Holly Lisle has been writing fiction professionally since 1991, when she sold FIRE IN THE MIST, the novel that won her the Compton Crook Award for best first novel. She has to date published more than thirty novels and several comprehensive writing courses. She has just published WARPAINT, the second stand-alone novel in her Cadence Drake series.

Holly had an ideal childhood for a writer…which is to say, it was filled with foreign countries and exotic terrains, alien cultures, new languages, the occasional earthquake, flood, or civil war, and one story about a bear, which follows:

“So. Back when I was ten years old, my father and I had finished hunting ducks for our dinner and were walking across the tundra in Alaska toward the spot on the river where we’d tied our boat. We had a couple miles to go by boat to get back to the Moravian Children’s Home, where we lived.

“My father was carrying the big bag of decoys and the shotgun; I was carrying the small bag of ducks.

“It was getting dark, we could hear the thud, thud, thud of the generator across the tundra, and suddenly he stopped, pointed down to a pie-pan sized indentation in the tundra that was rapidly filling with water, and said, in a calm and steady voice, “That’s a bear footprint. From the size of it, it’s a grizzly. The fact that the track is filling with water right now means the bear’s still around.”

“Which got my attention, but not as much as what he said next.

” ‘I don’t have the gun with me that will kill a bear,’ he told me. ‘I just have the one that will make him angry. So if we see the bear, I’m going to shoot him so he’ll attack me. I want you to run to the river, follow it to the boat, get the boat back home, and tell everyone what happened.’

“The rest of our walk was very quiet. He was, I’m sure, listening for the bear. I was doing my damnedest to make sure that I remembered where the boat was, how to get to it, how to start the pull-cord engine, and how to drive it back home, because I did not want to let him down.

“We were not eaten by a bear that night…but neither is that walk back from our hunt for supper a part of my life I’ll ever forget.

“I keep that story in mind as I write. If what I’m putting on paper isn’t at least as memorable as having a grizzly stalking my father and me across the tundra while I was carrying a bag of delicious-smelling ducks, it doesn’t make my cut.”

You can find Holly on her personal site:
Hollylisle.com

You can find Cadence Drake, Holly's currently in-progress series, on her site:
CadenceDrake.com

You can find Holly's books, courses, writing workshops, and so on here:
The HowToThinkSideways.com Shop, as well as on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and in a number of bookstores in the US and around the world.

Reviews

[Shannon]

This book sounded really good, until I dug a bit deeper. Nothing original here.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eek, the things you find in a used bookstore. I grabbed this for a dollar because the premise seemed so interesting . . . and didn't notice until I was home that the back jacket described it as "erotic." So, unlike some other reviewers out there, I was, in fact, warned, and decided to take my chances. The advertisement of "erotic" on the back flap instead of the front made me think that publishers were half-hiding that confession, or wanted to promote the book based on that impression but weren't really convinced it was true, or that readers would believe it.

I'm not usually a fantasy epic kinda girl. I'm exhausted by pages of maps, pronunciation guides, and 50 page of back story about a country's economics/politics/religion etc. I just want to get to the good stuff. That said, I liked that Lisle kept it pretty simple. The setting never took over, I could grasp her descriptions of the bizarre magical fighting (weird, but ok, I could follow it), and I liked that Talyn the character was a go-getter.

Don't get me wrong; there was still weird. The sexual abuse and torture are not glossed over. But I wouldn't say they're gratuitous, and I certainly wouldn't call the novel "erotic," either. The author clearly delineates the encounters that occur as abuse, not pleasure, and denounces them in the protagonist's quest for justice. Since it was such a major part of the plot and the villain's motive, it'd be tougher to gloss over it and still have a story that would convince a reader of the dangers. For me, the hardest scene to read was early on, when it's not clear yet who's the villain, and a sexual encounter that escalates to violence leaves you wondering if this is something the writer will promote further in the novel. Thankfully, no.

The dead giveaway that really should and can warn everyone about some major plot twists is the cover art. Not the one shown, but the original, which depicts Talyn in the arms of a hooded, black-gloved figure with distinctively creepy eyes, amidst a sea of darkness. Whoever did that artist rendering nailed it.

But back to the novel -- there's some good stuff going on in here, I think, despite the weird. I have no idea how often fantasy novels will take on so many huge issues like torture, ethics in war, and various culture's attitudes towards women, and try to really analyze and think through them. Lisle looks at all of these, and if her hand at it isn't always deft, she gives it an honest, thoughtful go. My impression is she genuinely intended to bring these issues to the foreground for more than plot development.

I got a little exhausted around page 450 -- again, as I've said, I lack the stamina or practice with fantasy epics -- and there was a little too much repetition of noble intentions from the protagonists ("For my people, I will save the day" kinda thing) that left me wishing Lisle had a little more faith in her readers to get the vivid world and obvious conflicts she'd established. But I liked Talyn; I liked her more in the first couple hundred pages, when she was busy doing and plotting, than I did in the middle -- torture scenes, ugh -- or the end when I saw more fainting and flagging than I would have liked. There are more subtle ways to depict fear and trauma, I think. But Gair was great, and with Talyn he was great, and the story interested me enough to see it through, despite a somewhat hastily tied-together ending. And for me, who generally avoids any novel that begins with four pages of maps, that's pretty high praise for the genre.

[Judah · Rating 2 out of 5]

While there are some aspects of this book that are interesting...the way magic works, mainly, it stops there. Lisle creates an interesting character in Talyn...but then doesn't really do anything with her. Nada. After Talyn's initial development, it falls to hell.

**How can I do this when I know it's wrong???

But....I love him!!**

I'm sure it all wraps up into a nice and tidy ending, with Talyn overcoming her needs and saving the country, and I'm sure it was plenty interesting, but yeesh...do we really need to slog through that crap? (and for the record, I made it 300+ pages into the book before putting it down)

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I first opened the book, I noticed the maps, and I love maps. In them, she lays out the foundation of an entire world and the island continent of Hyre. When I saw them, I thought the world map was a little much, but I was amazed that she was able to fit the names of almost all of the lands in the first chapter and not feel like I had been force-fed a lot of information. In this, I discovered that she was able to flesh out her world while advancing her story and introducing her characters. Well done.

Also in the book's first pages, we are introduced to the Magic of Hyre. The system is rather intricate and well developed. Neither do we have magic for its own sake; the magic is very much a part of the story and the evolving plot. With the introduction of the Feegash magic, the world rapidly evolves and the technology of magic explodes with possibilities. I thoroughly enjoyed the discovery and the thoughts on how these discoveries would change society.

During the course of this introduction though, you find that the two countries in Hyre - the Tonks and the Eastils - have been at war for over three hundred years. That floored me, and I tried to imagine how it would be to be at war for 300 years, and I could not. I see the purpose of the length of time, for it allows both people to evolve war as a way of life and to weaken each other from external threats, but those aspects are not made apparent until much later in the book. The length of the war stretched the believability of the setting.

As for the story itself (yes there is a story, and a good one at that), it is well-developed. The characters are interesting and keep one curious as to what direction events may lead them. Though slow in the beginning, the plot is planting its seeds to grow. It definitely picks up pace as the book progresses, though not at any cost to the writing. I particularly liked how Lisle played with honesty and honor, and it plays a significant role throughout the entire story (basically playing a part of the theme of the story).

I would definitely recommend that book for someone looking for a story set in a solid fantasy world that emphasizes on the evolution of magic. I expect there to be future stories set in Korre due to the title, the vastness of the setting developed and the fact Lisle has aspects of the setting detailed on her website that do not appear in the book.

[Madelyne · Rating 5 out of 5]

I posted a more in depth entry on my blog (link: http://with-a-flower.blogspot.com/201...), but here is part of it. I don't think I gave any spoilers...

Today I finished Talyn by Holly Lisle. Have you read it? Go now, find a copy, read, and tell me is it not splendid?! I came across this book on LibraryThing. The cover intrigued me (of course), but I read very little about its plot. I immediately went to PaperBackSwap and procured my copy. I didn’t read it right away (damn library books).

I’m not always good with summaries, but this wouldn’t be a good review without one (at least I’m told).

Talyn is a Shielder for the Confederacy taak Belytaak in Hyre. Her magical abilities and those of her fellow Shielders have helped wage war on the Republic of Eastil for the past 300 years. Suddenly outside people the Ba’Feegash are invoking and spreading peace throughout both sides of Hyre. Talyn finds herself having to play “nice” with the enemy, but are they the true enemy?

Holly Lisle, and this no exaggeration, has crafted one of the best fantasy novels I’ve ever read. Her attention to detail is amazing. She created not one country, but several with different cultures, languages, people, and intricate histories. I kept reading and reading nearly convinced that this was a people that had lived at some unknown point in my past. The characters leapt off the page, it was very easy to see and feel what they were going through. Many of Talyn’s thoughts I nodded my head wanting to walk up to someone and say, “Yes! Do you see?”. One such time being with the following quote from the book, I posted it on my Facebook even:

‘Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.' - Talyn by Holly Lisle page 42

[jD · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was refreshing to read a book that is wholly complete in itself. I was beginning to think everything good in SF/Fantasy had to be a series or trilogy. This is a very good stand alone novel.

It was nothing like what I expected. Talyn, the lead character stayed true to her character. Whenever she felt weakness, she fought it with all she was. Her trials and tribulations were outside of the expected or ordinary. The storyline encompassed the best and the worst elements of religion and isolated communities.

The magic is a little strange but it works for the story even if it is hard to understand. I don't know why Ms. Lisle had names for the hours and days that were never explained. She expects the reader to figurue out the key to her languague but it would have been easier to have the info handy. The map was very handy and the only reason I kept reading past the first 100 pages. Bottom line, if you can get past the first 100 pages, you will be blown away with the twist and turns of the story. It is a very good read.

[Angela R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book, I couldn't put it down. I VERY RARELY give any book 5 stars, but this one earned it. I read a lot of fantasy and I must say that I'm rarely surprised. But Talyn was so unique that I was still eagerly turning pages at 5am. This was a book that I finished off in a 24 hour period. Worth reading for any fan of fantasy or just well written fiction in general!

[Johnny · Rating 4 out of 5]

My youngest daughter is named “Talyn.” My wife adapted the name from a similar name in a famous Chinese novel. Until I brought Talyn: A Novel of Korre home, she’d never seen anyone else with the same spelling. I didn’t know the author and, because of my admiration for my daughter, I hesitated to read this novel lest it taint my thoughts of her. Well, the Talyn in the novel is from a fictional religion where promiscuity is both expected and encouraged and I don’t think that fits my Talyn, but I was delighted to discover an exceptional, sensitive, bright, and courageous protagonist. So, I was happy to dive into the book.

It is hard to describe this book without giving away some of the tricky events in this book. It isn’t hard to see the probable revelations just ahead of the reader, but they happen so often that one begins to feel as paranoid as one of those captives on the “island” in British television’s The Prisoner. Let me just assure you that you should trust no one in this novel. The paranoia effect works really well.

I think of the plot as an active Cold War. One culture is tribal and another is a democracy. They fight, spy, and defend using mental powers and, when the “cyber”-style assault (think of it as mental artillery fire) occurs, the physical warriors become the boots on the ground. The story begins by showing the tribal culture and sets up a potential betrayal by the democratic culture. Yet another culture has mental powers sufficient to be able to monitor both cultures as though this third culture was like a U.N. observer in our world. But, Talyn discovers an anomaly in the peace process and tries to convince others that there is a potential threat, that things were going too smoothly, and that something was just wrong.

Her concern about her culture is exacerbated when she becomes romantically involved with someone outside the tribal culture. Intermarriage is forbidden. Even though her family likes the suitor, they insist that they must cut Talyn off from family relationships if she marries him. Here, a woman who has served in the military and risked her life to save her culture is being held back from freedom due to her ties with her culture. It’s rather ironic and gets more so before the story is over. I particularly like the way Lisle portrays the moral bankruptcy in cultural relativism (see pp. 227, 381).

Layered with the labyrinthine twists and turns of the plot is a beautiful job of world-building. A DM in Dungeons & Dragons could build a fabulous campaign in this world. Things that are hidden to the reader until revealed seem just right for the way a given culture operates. The explanation of the way the mental powers work, and perhaps, a magical infrastructure undergirds the world’s physics was…er…mesmerizing. The way various demographics lived and the way each demographics reacted to events with different expectations and concerns really worked for me.

To be honest, the last stretch to the climax of the story was a bit stretched out. It wasn’t as crisp as one would have expected from the first seven-eighths of the book. But the denouement was satisfying (with enough predictability to make the reader feel very smug) and I will likely watch for Holly Lisle novels in the future. After all, I can always “steal” elements of her cultures to surprise my gaming group.

[Allen Garvin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Talyn starts imaginatively and interestingly: two countries at bitter war for 300 years, followed, within 50 pages, by a sudden peace. But, more importantly, it immediately gives a cast of sharply-drawn and fascinating characters, and provides great interaction between them and the storyline. Plus, it presents us with a moderately new magic system, and follows is persistently throughout the book to a logical conclusion based on that system. Certainly, other fantasy authors have given us similar treatments of magic, but this seemed like a particularly good one.

I've been a moderate fan of Holly Lisle since the late 90s, and I really thought she had hit her stride with this book. 200 pages in, I thought it would be a 5 star book. 300 pages in, there was an unusual plot twist that seemed to make it into a pretty standard, generic fantasty plot, and I had dropped it to 4 stars. The characters were still great. By the end, though, I had mostly lost interest in them, for it had become a stock fantasy novel. I found little connection between the last 100 pages and the first 100. The villain quite unexpectedly changed from a sympathetic character to a completely evil, amoral thing--but worse, his motivations as a villain make little sense. The romance between the two leads was unconvincing. Initially interesting surrounding characters became downright wooden (for instance, Pada, Snow Grell, Talyn's family).

Not a bad read, but not one to keep. Holly's World Gate books, though not without problems, are still her best to date. I haven't given up on her, though!

[Ruth · Rating 2 out of 5]

c2005: FWFTB: Eastil, Feegash, soldier, magery, Tonk. Again, this was a random recommendation that I wish, in a way, I had noted down so that I could discount future recommendations from this source in the future. Wordy in a word. Lots and lots of philosophising and explaining and history and world building. I didn’t ‘get’ the main character at all. I liked the 3rd leg of the ‘triangle’ but didn’t find the eroticism mentioned in blurb. Sex, yes, but erotic – nah!Ms Lisle certainly has an impressive back catalogue of work so I am sure that I am in the minority but perhaps I just read the runt of the litter, so to speak. The blurbs on the front and back covers are both from favourite authors – Ms Robin Hobb and Ms Jacqueline Carey. So, if they liked it and I like their writings, I am at a loss as to understand why I didn’t enjoy this book. The cover is dominated by the title and the comments by Ms Hobb. There is a tiny picture of the representation of Talyn with her long braid. Sadly, I can’t recommend this book to the normal crew.’Some of life’s biggest moments drop on you when you are not looking, and stick to you, and brand you, and change you in ways you cannot understand and would never expect, and when they first happen they look like nothing so terribly important and then they gather mass and speed and momentum and when you finally realise what has happened it has become far too late to move to safety.”

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Friendly Warning:

I've heard of Holly Lisle for awhile, but it was until recently that I picked up one of her novels. The first book I read by her was called The Ruby Key, and was geared towards a very younger audience, but since I liked it so much, I decided to read more by her, and hearing that Talyn was a favorite, I decided to go with it.

Now, I'm not one to read back covers (they always give away the best parts of the plot, in my opinion), but maybe if I had, I would have expected what happened in this book. To put it bluntly, a lot of this book revolves around sex, really disturbing controlling sex. There are several sex scenes in this book (four that come to mind), and a few almost-sex scenes (2 of those), in addition to several descriptions of previous sexual encounters. None of this really shows up until the first third of the book, but I was a bit shocked when I realized just how much sex was there!

Now don't get me wrong, I'm fine with sex in my books, but I just didn't expect to find it in the science fiction section. I still really liked the book regardless (I rated it a 4!), I just wish I had been warned, and I can imagine that someone who is a bit more conservative would be freaked out by some of the scenes in the book.

[Thara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book by Holly Lisle I've read and I intend to find more. There are a lot of book with a similar premise that don't live up to their promise. Not this one. The writing was clear and precise, the characters well-developed, and the story well-executed. The society created by Lisle was utterly believable. Talyn is likeable, honorable, humorous, basically someone I felt like I could be friends with. Every once in a while, though, she makes a comment that forced me to realise that she belonged to a different, alien society. Lisle maintained the characterization and tone throughout the novel. Impressive and creative.

The last few pages were the most disappointing part of the book - they were intended to be a wrap-up but just felt like an extra bow slapped on top of an already marvelously wrapped present.

Lisle discusses faith, honor, love, greed, the prelude to and aftermath of abuse and degredation - none of them light topics - within an engaging story. Yes, watch out for the graphic sex scenes, but also Talyn's highly original observations of the world and people around her.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked a lot of things about this book. The world it was set in was convincing and detailed, and Lisle managed to convey this without the longwinded descriptions typical of similar novels. Most of the main characters were also well-developed, and the treatment of magic as a technology allowed its limits to seem logical rather than arbitrary. Lisle explored issues such as religion, gender, and treatment of prisoners that went beyond the usual good vs. evil formula.

Some of the scenes turned my stomach, though. I'm not sure I can say that they were gratuitous or that they detracted from the impact of the book, but they did detract from my enjoyment of it. Also, I didn't find the ending nearly as convincing as the rest of the book - it wrapped up in a few pages several years of rebuilding between countries that had been at war for hundreds of years, and things ended up ridiculously close to perfect. I'm not opposed to happy endings, but I think this one would have been stronger had it ended just a few pages earlier with the resolution of the family conflict.

[Kathryn Hoss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better on the second read-through, and better, in some respects, than its sequel Hawkspar. Where I found Hawkspar more intricately plotted and sometimes more exciting, I found the worldbuilding and characterization of Talyn much deeper. This is a good, thick fantasy book with an amazing world and a rewarding story. I highly recommend it.

SORT-OF SPOILERS: the first time I read this, I thought the villain's evil was over-the-top, that no human could be that evil. I was seventeen at the time. Now, having read Hawkspar and thought a lot about the messages that Lisle was trying to convey, I have to concede that humans are perfectly capable of the kind of evil which she invokes in her stories. Evil isn't the eye of Sauron, destroying for the sake of destruction. Evil is a culture which elevates sociopaths into positions of power, which teaches some human beings that they are entitled to the bodies of other human beings. Evil is us.

[Derek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like Diplomacy of Wolves, it is thick with invention--political, cultural, magical, personal, and so forth--to the point of being too much. The book starts with layers of history and culture and background that roots the continent of Hyre and the long war between the Confederacy and the Republic, and it's clear fairly soon that the situation is not entirely black-and-white.

I was looking forward to a complex resolution to the endless war by these entrenched opponents (I apparently did not read the back cover), but the story went in an entirely different direction by introducing the Feegash. In comparison to the Tonk and Eastils of the Confederacy and the Republic, the Feegash came off as cartoonishly villainous.

[Ruhegeist · Rating 2 out of 5]

The blurb on the back was a little misleading. Still glad to have read the book. Probably should have ended about 100 pages earlier as I got a little tired of the story and some of what I found over the top unnecessary rants of the "here we come to save the day," "I love you but you're so wrong for me", "woe are we," destiny variety. The world Lisle created was well done in the first half but did suffer later. The culture and religion well thought out. In the end was still good vs evil. I prefer a little more gray area. A good light read.

Will continue the review later....too tired now.

[Elyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Talyn is a tremendously interesting book. I couldn't put it down!

The story starts fast - you're thrust into a vibrant world with well-defined, intricate cultures and believable characters. Look for your traditional fantasy elements elsewhere, because Talyn has about as much in common with high fantasy as Shakespeare has with James Cameron.

The plot is not predictable, and it will keep you turning the page to see what happens next. There is a romance element that turns in on itself. There is a magic aspect that manages to be powerful without turning its practitioners into Supermen. The plot twists never felt forced.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was thrilled to find a hardback copy of a Holly Lisle book which I had not read at Half Price Books. (At half price, the price is always right.)

I have to admit: the cover was right. The world Holly Lisle has created is enthralling. (Pun intended.) I loved the characters, hated what happened to them, and enjoyed their growth through their experiences.

I had a hard time putting the book down to sleep.

It's a good read!

[Nathalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has everything that I want in a Fantasy book and much, much more.

Pros:
- Amazing world building.
- Unique and quite complex magic system.
- The author has an amazing ability to make you "feel" what the character is feeling, and also makes you go through some very uncomfortable situations. Definitely not for kids!
- Great characterization.
- A rich plot that will always keep you guessing.

Cons:
- The author has a habit of repeating herself, especially in the beginning. However, I suppose the repetition helped with my understanding of the magic system.

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book. The worldbuilding is fantastic and very indepth--all from first person no less! I love how almost all of the characters are well rounded and three dimensional and the villain is really creepy, even more so because you don't know if you can trust him or not. Also his plan is truly horrifying. I think it s a truly scary message at the end. (though maybe a bit overdone)

[Patricia Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an amazing, powerful novel!!! A clash of societies, a long war, a devastating peace, fierce loyalties, interesting magic, and a deep love that crosses boundaries of culture and patriotism. So well written, and with wonderful characters, this is one of the best books I've read this year...and one I'll read again.

[Alia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not only was this book well written, but it deeply analyzed government and culture. The mechanics of the magic was well developed and made logical sense. Talyn is deep and fascinating and her adventure is heart-racing.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is intense, but i loved it! The author has written an antagonist that makes most other antagonists look like wimps. He is so evil I got the creeps reading about him, a very unusual thing for me.

[Dusty · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing, and one of my very, very favourite books. I've read it several times over and have yet to get sick of it, and each time I read it's as if I'm reading it again for the first time.

[Nienke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written fantasy epic.

[Eva · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my most favoritest books EVAH.

[Shianan · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of those books that kept me up until ungodly hours of the morning because I just HAD to know

[Literary Lusts · Rating 2 out of 5]

I seem to be having some bad luck with fantasy lately. This is the second book in a row that seemed to have an interesting premise and had good reviews that just didn't grab my attention. Bummer.

[Mandee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely LOVED this book!!! It really makes you think.

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was a pretty long drawn out book. had a hard time finishing it