>>1739804Sorry, OP here. Had to leave for awhile.
Where do I start? I had no idea who the author was, but the premise seemed interesting, so I gave it a shot. The biggest problem is that the characters are utterly uninteresting -- very poorly developed/motivated. It's just basically "here's person A, he's a good guy, and so he does good guy things" and so on. Zero depth. The author does have a very vivid and visual imagination, so there are some interestingly conceptualized tidbits, but the writing is so laboured and atrocious that it sucks the joy out of reading about some cool idea or another. These poorly constructed descriptive passages are unfortunately frequent and endless. Plot is meh (as far as I got to, anyway.) I swear this book was edited by a can of soup.
Let me regale y'all with some gems:
"Eligor patted the ash from his skins and watched it sift slowly down forming a ring of
ash{...}"
"It served and would serve again, she had learned, in times of war as a gathering space and parade ground for Eligor's Flying Guard but was now empty of demons save for the curious procession of demons that she saw emerging slowly [...]"
"Vast olive-brown plains, like sheets of skin, rended and folded, were cut by flowing, incandescent rivers of lava and pocked by scattered outposts, pincushioned with fiery-tipped towers."
