EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN (Christ Cleave) - June 1/16

Holy shit, Cleave, what happened?? I loved/really liked Cleave's first three books, so I'm fairly astonished at the degree to which I hated this. The author employs an almost insanely descriptive writing style that was often infuriating and I found myself skimming over whole passages. It didn't help that the narrative was sluggish as hell and the characters were uniformly uninteresting, either. A complete mess. * out of ****