When I started this book (and I think the first one as well), I thought it was moving very slow. The thing is, it's a bit like building a campfire. You start slow, build it up, and then you get the big 'ole campfire, crackling away.

I don't have a lot of the beliefs that are the basic tenets of the main character in the book and yet, while I'm reading, I seem to. A mark of good writing because if it was crap, I wouldn't be sucked in.