I don’t do well with very literary type books but tried to give this one a fair shake due to the ratings. The shifting perspectives and multiple layers of stories were actually fine, and I had hope this would actually pull me more into reading literary novels; but a sudden scene of extreme fantasy torture and body horror made me not want to continue. I’m particularly sensitive to the latter though. From what I read in discussions about the whole book, this is hardly the end of that sort of content and a good reason for me to cut my losses.