A review by fxp
The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

Did not finish book.

2.0

After the first book, I was excited what comes next and a continuation of the story, and more revelations about the past. Urth is being hinted to be the future of our Earth, and there are mentions of space travel. Alas, not much really happens in this book, it's mostly a chain of stretched out uneventful episodes, intermingled with the odd relationships of the protagonist with women. Dorcas, the one he really loves, while he likes to have sex with Jolena with the "breasts like melon" and Thecla his first swarm, whom he helped to suicide and still misses. I don't understand why Neil Gaiman endorsed this book.