I am about 4 hours from the end of this audio book, and I'm just done. I'm bored out of my skull. There is so much brilliance here, a darkly beautiful fairy tale, but it's hidden under massive info dumps and more mundane events than I can handle. Things will start to pick up, my interest will peak, and then it's back to the mundane. It doesn't help that the narrator of this book is mainly monotone. I might come back to this at a later date but, as it stands, I'm walking away. It's the end of the year, and I refuse to end on a mediocre book.