A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the …
Not really feeling her writing style here. Maybe I'm just too tired, I'll check again later
@tofuwabohu@wyrms.de FWIW, I thought the tone and style was one of the best things about it. Especially with language and its power being one of the most important themes of the book along with the technology around bronze-age level, I appreciated how the language of the book carried the story so well while also conveying both the foreign and the familiar. Also, it occurs to me as I unintentionally used "language and its power" above that she seems to have been drawing on the Daodejing (sometimes translated as "The Classic of the Way and its Power") for language as well as for narrative structure & worldbuilding.
@Sasu@bookrastinating.com I think I get that, but it's kinda hard to read for me, probably because the elaborate writing and describing exceeds the limits of my English vocabulary. Maybe I should try a translation, but I'm not much of a fun of such writing in general I guess.
