Drew Brads’s Reviews > The City of God > Status Update

“So, too, they tell of a race who have two feet but only one leg, and are of marvelous swiftness, though they do not bend the knee: they are called Skiopodes (shade-feet), because in hot weather they lie down on their backs and shade themselves with their feet.”

Everything in this book is either awesome or completely wacky, no in between.

300 pages in and the title character finally makes an appearance