Ren

This book is a bit strange. The writing would've been great were it not for the excessive, sometimes even irrelevant and unnecessary, use of comparative descriptions; not everything feels like something else. Odd story elements but not entirely unwarranted working in the genre of fairy tales and fables.

Wow, Lee's characters are wonderfully compelling and the attention to detail in the training of rocs is fascinating. The ending was heartwrenching and I liked this book a lot more than I thought I would at the beginning.

Honestly really loved this book. I loved Lucifer and Michael's relationship, and the consequences thereof. I also loved the altered interpretation of how/why mankind came into existence.

This is such a fascinating book and an incredibly useful tool for studying poetry (and writing in general) as a craft. Drury, however, was oddly insistent on taking non-western forms/ideas and making them "more relatable" to American culture.