There is a good story in this book, but unfortunately it's buried
under a ton of invented stuff that I presume the author threw in
there to make this a more clever book. In my opinion, he failed.
There are so many things that are made up [places, items, etc.] and
included in the narrative but not really explained as to what they
are or why we're being told about them, that it really interfered
with my enjoyment of the story about what was happening in the
parallel storylines of Oliver and Molly. It's too bad too, because
Oliver and Molly are both terrific, engaging characters, but it
seems like the author didn't think that their stories and
adventures were enough to keep a reader interested.
At nearly 600 pages, this book is longer than it needs to be to
tell the actual story and I found all the extraneous created things
that Hunt threw in but didn't fully explain substantially took away
from my enjoyment of this story. It would have been better without
all the fancy "stuff" Hunt created that didn't add to the story and
would probably have been several hundred pages shorter - which
would have made for a better read.