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I hated this book. In fact, I hated it so much that I only made it 1/3rd of the way though, and this is a very short book. The reason this book fails is because it isn't actually a book, it is a annoying exercise in descriptive poetry. The author is in love with her own voice and decide to make every sentence a simile or metaphor. Here is an example: "The rain started suddenly, forcing John to run the last few steps to the door." See that? That was a very plain, very informative sentence. It wasn't artistic, it wasn't award-winning, however it did convey my message fairly succinctly. John was in danger of getting wet from the rain so he ran to the door. You will notice perhaps that you didn't have to read that sentence four times to fully understand the meaning. That is as it should be, seeing as this wasn't that complex an idea. Now I'm going to rewrite that sentence in the style of Palimpsest. "The Almighty rent a long tear in the blue black firmament of the angels. Droplets escaped their cumulus prisons like dying souls searching for purgatory and hurled themselves down, down, down with endless shrieks of joy as they sought the embrace of Gaia's skin. John was caught unawares, soon his body would be awash just as his soul was soaked through with the ersatz indigo of another's pain. Firing himself along a sodden path he desperately sought the longing embrace of a warm place and knew that the joy of the sun's warmth lay behind the oak mouth of the towering behemoth before him." Now if you read that second sentence and your first thought was something along the lines of "wow, that was a mix of gibberish and stupidity" then this book probably isn't for you. However, if instead you thought "wow, that was great. I would love to read an entire book composed of nothing but sentences like that!" then baby have I got the book for you.