I DNFed this book. I have tried immensely to get into it. I thought the summary was absorbing, interesting, but I could not immersed into it. It has taken me this long to provide feedback on the book simply because I have forced myself to read it since I requested this book, and it has become a chore, and I have no desire to finish it. 
 That is not to say that this is a bad book. The writing is beautiful, and to me, it evokes Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. However beautiful the writing was, the plot itself failed to draw my attention. 
 This book was provided to me as an Advance Review Copy by Netgalley.