Since this is a novel about Shakespeare's son, it has to have poetic flowery language , right?
That's what I told myself going through this book, but there's a limit to the amount of nonsense I can take.
It's not necessarily a bad book, it's just long winded and extremely boring. 
The author uses way too many adjectives and synonyms to describe physical aspects of the scene that really don't add much. To me personally, I dont find mashing a bunch of words to create a paragraph to be insightful or engaging in the least.
I like it when words are there to MEAN SOMETHING! When they make me FEEL SOMETHING!! 
This is overly descriptive of a scene I don't care about! The man's just sleeping. I had no attachment to the characters and it wasn't as immersive as i would've liked it to be. I love good use of language and words but this amount of flowery language has the opposite affect on me. It distanced me from the characters and felt artificial. I tried to push through because the amount of people who love this book is crazy!
But I just couldn't take it after p.150 it's more than I would give any book before DNFing it.