I had somehow taken this book off of my to-read list; don't even know how it happened, but it wandered over onto my 'not now' list and languished there. VERY unique world building, definitely liked it, BUT. There was one part of the book that was just needlessly, endlessly long -- I understand the reason for it, it allowed us to get a great view of Thane's past, but dude, I ended up skimming almost all of it.