While this novel is full of lush imagery and, as one other review says, inventive language, the continuous stream of adjectives swiftly becomes dull, in the way that making everything special makes it certain that nothing is special. The characters aren't so much characters as they are enactors of ritual, ambiguity, chaos, and power; there's nothing interesting about them because they have no depth or particularly human qualities. And that's fine--it's clearly deliberate--but it also adds to the book coming across like a poorly pitched religious tract than a novel.

Beautiful writing! It's like poetry - lush, evocative, transported me to another realm. There is also a mythological tone. I'm excited to read more - the descriptions of rebirth intrigued me. Thank you for the arc!