Clarkey

A lot of the reviews for this book mention the difficulty of working out who is saying what to who. One answer is to go for the superbly narrated audio book. The production was superb and the story gripping, though I think a passing knowledge of England in the 16th Century would be a help.
I'm about to download the next in the series.

Excellent. This series seems to get better as it goes on: scary funny, fast-paced.

Absolutely loved this!

Excellent hard scifi space opera that has a Joy Division reference and a Fast Show joke :-)

Well, I finally read Book 1 after much nagging from daughter. I really wanted to love it - I love many people who love it!

About a third of the way through, though, I was tempted to ditch it and say that it just wasn't for me. It took ages to get going, and some of the long passages of description and past deeds (with everyone having at least threes names) seemed to go on forever. And as for the songs...

In the end though, it won me over. The good bits were really good and became more frequent in the last third. The atmosphere and the characters eventually got to me and I became more invested as it went on, pretty much from the mountains onwards.

So I'm going to have a go at Book 2 - there, I said it!