It took me a long time to regain my reading abilities lost over the last few years but I finally finished the book and the short stories, and enjoyed all of them very much.

At first the book reads like a disjointed collection of (not so short) stories as the main character abruptly ends one chapter of his life and moves onto another but it all comes around at the end.

Once I got used to this format I was so engaged I actually missed the end of the book and leapt into short stories, all while trying to figure out how these new unexplained characters fit into the main storyline... took me a bit to look at the table of contents haha.

Overall the world created by the author is very rich in detail and spans years and generations. I found the language a little too complex and overwhelming at times but I'm not a native speaker. Still, the book flows smoothly and the dialogues are very enjoyable, and I definitely recommend looking into it.