City of Last Chances

Dnf page 290

Well I popped my Tchaikovsky cherry and it was not good. I've never wanted to like a book more than this one. The cover is my favorite cover of all time. I truly wanted this to be on my bookshelf and I've heard such great things about the author that I had to give this a try. Granted I've heard that his fantasy is not that great compared to his Sci-fi which is why I wanted to read this first before reading a sci-fi masterpiece.

Let me tell you I almost never give a rating on a DNF under 75%. I don't think it's fair to the author when it could just be a slow burn, but 60% is close enough when you take in to account just how much effort I had to give. Hell the first chapter was alarming for me. It reads as if Charles Dicken's wrote 1984 but included subtle magic with God and Demons. That might sound good to you but I don't like classics unless it's Dumas and while I enjoyed the premise of 1984, it was still a hard book to get into. Then you include religious creatures but in no way could you imagine how he portrays them in this.

All in all you might like the book if you can make it to the end but I tap out, but by no means am I giving up on the author as a whole.