4.0

Fantastic BUT could have been so much shorter. There was a fair amount of detail that felt unnecessary. The story kept winding and some of it took the narrative so far of course(pun intended). By the time Fedarko got back to the story I was trying to recall the details before Fedarko had wandered off on some minutiae that maybe wasn't really necessary to the story. I almost quit reading this book many times. When I say the book was bogged down in details I can't say it enough but once Fedarko finally got started on the story of what the book was ACTUALLY about it was fantastic. So yes I gave the book 4 stars because I respect the material and the work that went into it and the last 5 hours of the 17 hour book were fantastic. I just think there should have been some heavy editing.