Ultimately too repetitive for me, and though it's dreamy it is a dreamscape that evokes picasso's Guernica and the unsavory side of the human psyche, revolution, poverty and the imagination as much as the euphoric side. ( )

A nice fast read, highly entertaining, but not very moving--at all--which I kind of require to give five stars unless it is the Best Thing Ever (e.g. Joe Keenan's Blue Heaven, consistently hilarious and not remotely touching).

It managed the neat trick of being almost entirely composed of dreams, which, let's face it, are the dullest part of any novel--but because the point of it was the dreams, and the dreams intersected and collided and changed the other dreams, it became very interesting indeed.

Felt more like surrealism (e.g. Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet) than fantasy par usual ... there was no explanation for why any of this would be happening, it just was.

Nicely written, unusual, and brisk. ( )