This book is very long, and it takes some dedication to really get enthralled in it. I think if you were reading it slowly, and not in 100 page chunks like I was, it might seem slow and kinda of tedious. 
 But that being said, this book contained some of the most vivid descriptions I've ever read. The characters are so well developed that they seem to exist outside of the page - I could see their expressions, hear their accents, listen to their thought process. 
 In other books, I think this level of detail would become boring, but it's so well written that you move through it really quickly. I did start to become a little fatigued with it by the end, but luckily that's when the plot really picks up and helps propel you through the end of it.