Now this feels BAD. Not only was this the last book I needed to read to do the Orilium Solstice reading challenge (the only book that even fits the category of book w/ 'earth' in the title) but I was also really looking forward to it. Just a bit ... literary for my tastes. Hopefully at some point in the future this book will find me at the right time, but that time sure as hell isn't now.