The Spear Cuts Through Water

In many ways it is a beautifully written book, yet I found it nigh unreadable. It was such a struggle for me to read that it took all enjoyment out of it.



I've read books before that I found hard to read or slow-placed that still managed to click sooner or later. That is what I hoped for the entire time I continued to struggle with this book. Unfortunately it never clicked for me.

It felt like a tale being told in excruciating detail by a quickly rotating cast of story tellers, while the other story tellers, or ‘random passers-by', would often interject to add their side of the story.