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STORM OF WINGS: abuse of punctuation: excessive use of colons and exclamation points! Too much "gamboge", too many "equivocal" things, too many "stridulations", way too much cabbage and way too many dead geraniums. Way too many fancy words for too little story. What happened? Alien insects invaded and disrupted reality. Characters completely flat, all victims. It was bad.

The purple prose is killing me.

Not impressed with A Storm of Wings so far. The point-of-view keeps jumping around, there is no clear protagonist, and Harrison's prose is self-conscious and literary, which seems to me a distraction from the story -- such that it is at this point. Maybe it will improve.