kyrjava1123 's review for:

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

3.0

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Beautiful prose. Plodding plot (man must find wife, bumbles about doing so in the most forgetful and inneficient way possible), which is astonishing given the premise of the book, which is that the protagonist will explore the separate, fantastic and amazing floors of a giant tower. Dull and unrelatable protagonist. Oh and women basically don't exist, except as covetted, rare objects.

I don't understand why this has such a high rating. Really, the prose is beautiful. But if I don't care about the subject of the prose... What's the point?