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While it's no Life of Pi, it's certainly keeping my interest. I picked this up at the library a week ago, thinking that since I had liked Life of Pi, and due to the lifeboat ethics discussions we got into all my ethics and philosophy classes, I thought I'd give it a try... it's interesting, but only a little less than half way through, so we'll see how I progress. Haven't read a decent book since I have been back.

I had almost given up on this book, but I'm glad that I didn't... at least at this point... I haven't read the other two book about the detective but it seems that you don't have too... It's different in a good way... we'll see how it progresses over the next few days...

I continued with this book due to inclement weather and having a lot of time. I really felt that he has wanted to fit in with the young adult fantasy writers niche but at 540 pages, I highly doubt many teenagers plugging through this book. After a certain point I lost interest...It could have been significantly shorter and far more effective in telling the same story that he spent a lot of pages babbling over...

This book started off with a lot of promise. It's dividided into three parts, I just finished part one, and it's starting to loose it's zing... I'll give it a few more chapters to see how I feel before I make a final choice. It seems more for older teenagers and young adults rather than the children it claims it's a market for.... I certainly think Meloy had hoped to rank it with other higher end children's fantasy

I'm really debating whether or not to continue. It's been painstakingly slow, and I've been losing interest in it the more I progress through it. I think I'll pretty much decide according to how I feel with the chapter I'm trudging through. Unless it pulls out a fair amount of bells and whistles then I'm more likely going to drop this from my reading, which is a shame since so many have suggested I read this book

They don't actually have a kindle option for editions of this book. It's a little intense and right now, with all that's going on in my life, I've put this on the back burner until I can give it more the attention it deserves...