The Black Tides of Heaven

Love the world building. Love the characters - for all that Akeha and I started on very shaky ground.

However... I feel strangely cheated. This book - 240 pages is what my kindle says and to me, that is a book, not a novella - covers 35 years in four separate parts. Any single part could have easily been a book of it's own, save maybe the first part, because I don't find reading about kids under 9 particularly entertaining.

But the other three parts? Age 17, age 29 and age 35? It seems like we jumped out of 17 and 29 and there was still a lot of story left to tell. Also, I don't really like it when stories cover that much time. This one did it okay, but I still wasn't thrilled.