2008-09-06 Half of a good book.

It started out so promising... An interesting combination of period thriller, and science-fiction/fantasy, with a twist of dark eroticism (or is that just me? it's not just me, right?). I found the characters immediately engaging, and flew through the first 300 pages or so. Somewhere just after the half-way mark, it all unravelled a bit. I read the second half of the book in an unfulfilled quest to reveal more of the magic of its beginning. Though I read every page, by the end I could have cared less what happened to any of the characters, or what the damn blue glass books were all about. I just felt cheated out of half of a good book.