A compelling page-turner, but I had a hard time connecting with the whole "dudes doomed to carry the burdens of their fathers" thing. That's not a narrative that moves me, somehow. Obviously, YMMV, and maybe the scary nasty anthropophagi story is enough. The book transparently aspires to be more than that, however, and I wasn't the right reader to appreciate it. I'm like a big rock with waves of narrative crashing over my head.