The idea of this book is great. I love the cover and there is something truly beautiful about this book. I think it's the sadness that lies above the book, that makes it beautiful. But, it could have been better, a lot better. It has the potential to be great, but I feel it's a too thin story, th...
This was quite an easy read. I didn't warm to it at first, the style seemed quite mundane, like so much other writing that makes you wonder occasionally who people know in order to be published. But it turned into an interesting allegory for dysfunction and emotional illiteracy and the need to se...
A whole cast of characters irrevocably stuck in their own lives: Midas, who is paralyzed with fear that he is going to become like his coldhearted father; Henry Fuwa, who desperately loves Midas' widowed mother but cannot summon the courage to be with her; Carl, now obsessively in love with the d...
While I loved the story, I got bogged down in the descriptive writing. The fantastic elements are creative and fresh, and the connections between the characters are compelling (though often not very fleshed out). It seemed as if every noun had an adjective, and every detail was described. The wr...