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Much like Gingerbread, who gave this a 2-star review, I don't like writing critical reviews, but sometimes they’re warranted. I had hoped I'd enjoy this book because I thought the novel’s description and editor’s note described a storyline I would enjoy: an immortal under a curse that’s already spanned two thousand years. I wanted to like this book. However, this book is incredibly slow, has little character development, and has way too many POVs. In parts of the book the POV switches every couple of paragraphs and in some places the POV switches every single paragraph. That’s not an exaggeration. Not only are there an incredible number of POV switches, repetitive content from different POVs, but some voices are written in a badly done "dialect" that comes across as racist. There's no other way to put that. I hope the author didn’t mean it that way. This book had foul language, but it only bothered me when it didn't seem to match the character of the person talking. Other peeves: It feels as if the author has every single character looking in mirrors or windows so that they can describe what they look like. The author tells and doesn’t show enough. We are told people are "dear," our protagonist is "phenomenal," etc. Over and over, adjectives are used to tell us how we are supposed to feel about people, about what’s happening. The title itself is a hint that we're going to be told how wonderful he is over and over by the various characters and bludgeoned with scenes of him handing people money and doing charitable acts while people look at him and think of all the ways he's wonderful. It gets old. This book has a premise that probably would have worked as a screenplay but the execution as a novel is sadly lacking. At times I had the feeling that this was a screenplay that was stretched out into a book. That would explain all the POVs, the lack of world building and character development, etc. I'll confess that I read about 120 pages and gave up on being able to trudge through this book. I skipped forward to read the end, which is my reading Hail Mary, done rarely and only on DNFs that I want to give one last chance. Once in a while reading the end of a DNF inspires me to go back and read the entire book because I can see that the writing or the premise got better and I want to read the whole story. Not so here. Unfortunately looking forward only showed that everything I hadn't liked about the rest of the book was still there, only sped up so the POVs came more quickly. I jumped into a section where every paragraph was told from a different POV and the story grinding almost to a halt right when it should have been launching into high gear. Sorry to say that this novel will remain a DNF for me, which I know many regard as heresy. I can’t bring myself to read more.