DNFed at 35%. My rating is for that part only.Nothing happens in the first third of this "fantasy". The book itself is a huge info dump of useless history, descriptions of unimportant things (plumbing) and family liaisons. The language is pretentious and heavy, trying to camouflage as an "old charm"...
Okay, so.. I enjoyed the love story here and the hot monkey hermaphrodite sex was a bonus. However the unpronounceable names, titles, placenames and complicated politics made me want to scream! So to simplify:Lassen is the blond willowy beautiful youth (you know the type) who becomes concubine to R...