In the Watchful City

I am a bit unsure about this. I liked the main story but could see where it was going to go from the very beginning. Not that that is a bad thing per se but it didn't help me keep reading this already very short novel. The side stories were all quite nice, especially the one with the mermaids was amazing and some were also a bit disappointing. Like any short story collection really.

The bits where Anima is telling a story bothered me slightly. The bit where ?? tells Vessel about ??r life was nice but the composition on paper didn't really add anything significant and then later the poem about the sunrise just felt very unnecessary. The contents as well as the composition on the page. And in both parts, the punctuation was all over the place. Now if this was at all relevant to the text itself it might be nice like in House of Leaves, but it really wasn't so I didn't quite get the point. Was still very much worth the read though.