Status Updates From Scales of Gold (The House o...

Mmmmmay. I'm not sure I can get through this. I wanted to. *gestures to beautiful pirate-y looking book* but the writing is so dense, I really feel like I don't know who these people are, why I care, and what's even happening, and the writing is really dense. Did I say that already? It is. I'm 5 pages in and I'm struggling.

Well, I got this on a whim from a library sale. (That cover, and it's huge and has deckled edges, plus this edition was published in 1992, the year I was born) I didn't realize until coming here to Goodreads that it's book 4 in a series. So. Guess we'll see if I can read it by itself or not. If not, it'll go in my Pango Books shop to find a new home with someone else.

”During the days that followed, the act of watching Nicholas van der Poele became a popular Venetian pastime. Among the watchers, no doubt, were those who wished him no particular good. The remainder were divided among those who were captivated by his energy, his person, or his habit of making himself the center of a welter of bloodshed.”