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Navola
by Paolo Bacigalupi
Ponderous and stupefying. In a fantasy Italy, a very boring story takes place. The map at the beginning shows a distorted Eastern Mediterranean, but the placement of the city and the shoreline makes clear where it is. The place names and people's names make that very clear. Then, just to hammer it into your head in the dumbest way, occasionally the author has words in Italian. Now, since it's Italy, the characters are already speaking Italian. Therefore, what language are they really speaking when they change language to Italian?
The plot doesn't matter. It's so slowly paced that I couldn't care. After a quarter of the book, I gave up.
The plot doesn't matter. It's so slowly paced that I couldn't care. After a quarter of the book, I gave up.