Ren

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.

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.

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.