Eleventh Cycle

I am so conflicted about this book.
On one hand, we have an amazing concept and a super interesting world which has me completely hooked. Seriously, the author has fascinating imagination and has crafted a world so curious and extraordinary, as well as brutal and intriguing - I was stunned and very impressed.
On the other hand - we have really badly developed characters and terrible writing.
I can honestly say that I have never in my life read a book which had so many errors, nonsensical sentences and instances of outright wrong use of the language.
Here are some spoiler-free examples:
- Using words that have no way of developing and existing in this fantasy world. Such as - blip, spartan, gothic, baroque, medieval etc.
- Using multiple instances of the same word in a single sentence (‘...in his moment of truth there was no hesitation in his final moment.”, or “Stepping inside I noticed how stale the air inside was.”, or “With the help of another Watcher, Watcher Glenn was helped down.”)
- Characters referring to other characters by their name, before they know said name (Erefiel refers to Chroma by his name, 6 sentences before he learns it.)
- Misspelled words (cowl instead of scowl etc.)
- Outright nonsense. For example, the author describes what is essentially tentacles as “forked candles of gilded proportions”. What does “gilded proportions” even mean? How can proportions be gilded?? Or “Thoughts that no matter how vehemently I stirred refused to settle to the bottom of my pot.” How are things supposed to settle with stirring???
- Mixing different types of tenses (“All heads were bowed accordingly and, in silence, their prayers were made. My presence is a mere medium to unload their zeal onto. All I felt...”
- Using words and phrases incorrectly - The sentence “They took a wide birth from the strolling Ievarus.” should actually be “They gave the strolling Ievarus a wide berth.”
The author also used “duress” when he meant “durability”. And “I obliged his answer.” should've been I obliged him with an answer.

And this is just a tiny part of the MANY mistakes I managed to spot. And I'm not even a native English speaker. I don't know what kind of editing this book went through, but boy, did it need SO MUCH MORE!

I am still not sure whether I even want to continue with the series, despite being so fascinated by this world. I suppose I will give a chance to book two (whenever that comes out) and if the editing issues are still not fixed, I will not bother finishing it.