City on Fire

I choose this book based purely on a fairly interesting cover graphic in an email. Just goes to show, don't just a book by it's cover. (Not that the book I received had this cover anyway, but at least it gave me a chance to trot out an old metaphor)

I've had the book for nearly two months now and still am only half way through it, and I have finally given up. While it is undeniably well written, I just found I didn't like it at all. I couldn't really emphasise with any of the characters (and disliked most of them), the story wasn't making a huge amount of sense and seemed to be suffering from knowing what the story was actually about. It's quite a long novel too, almost felt like reading the Wheel of Time again. Perhaps it all falls into place by the end of the book, but for now I've given up.

Quite early on it stuck me I didn't really care for the book as I found it easy to put down and ignore - definitely a bad sign!

I generally don't give up on reading a book I've started, but this is one of the ones I will, and gladly.

Rather unfortunate that the very first book I'm approved for on NetGalley is one I ended up disliking.