I plodded through this book, I found the writing style overly descriptive to the point that I got ticked off with the author. I often skimmed some of the multi-page paragraphs, this was a problem as buried in same paragraphs were often important information, often forcing me to reread several pages of the book. This is why I put this book down once and didn't pick it up again for years.
I was unsatisfied by the ending, it had too many loose ends. Its possible that the author intended to leave some aspects of the story vague, or I might have missed more than I thought when my eyes glazed over. If the author wrote a bit tighter, and maybe cut 200 pages worth of chaff, this would have been a better book.