A Short Walk Through a Wide World

I liked the premise of the book but as it got on, the intentional non-linear storytelling started to unravel and I was starting to think it was deliberately mirroring Aubrey's sanity. It was not.

I found the book dragging on and on with no satisfying gratification at the end. A lot of details were left unexplained, which made me confused and lose interest. Is this a fantasy book? How much of it is in her head? What's the premise - is it magic? Sci-Fi? A curse?

As a travel book, it fails to capture the beauty of the world, instead leaping from place to place. As a fantasy book, the “library”'s intrigue becomes a rhetorical question.

The book is a puzzle ball which frustratingly leads to a fruitless, blank piece of paper. A full circle, if intentionally done then great job.