Tigana

Tigana starts awkwardly by introducing characters, then abruptly changing the scene to introduce more people before the reader has time to form an attachment to the original characters. This happens several times. Throughout the book there are abrupt changes in the story thread. With no warning, a paragraph will completely change to a different thread of the story, with no indication that the reader is now standing in another part of the world, and surrounded by different people. Many times, I would reach the middle of a paragraph - and suddenly realize that the pronouns were referring to different people than were in the previous paragraph.

Characters were sometimes lovable, sometime despicable - no real heroes or villains. The story had many twists and left many unresolved questions. While I enjoyed the story, and can even appreciate that some story lines aren't finished, I'm glad that there isn't a second book. I just don't love the world of Tigana enough to follow any further.