This book is intensely wordy!!! The descriptions were so long. You get pages of words with so little story. And the words aren't important at all. You can scan pages and I don't ever do that. I never would've finished it had it not been for a buddy read. There's also no structure to the writing, it just switches POV mid chapter. Maybe it was a great book back when it was published but it did not stand up to the test of time for me.