I finished reading "The Interminables" a week ago, and I enjoyed it very much! The writing, the writer's voice, is a pleasure to read. Not as much for the usual measure of suspense, but more for the style. The nature of the shattered reality, infused with magic, means it doesn't play out with the rationality of a police procedural. I found a few scenes harder to follow but then the words would drag me back in.

The characters are powerful yet flawed. "She drank her lemonade; Istvan drank pain; he, Edmund Templeton, drank lives and then drank over them, doing nothing but try to forget how deep down a well he'd fallen." They're nominally unkillable, interminable in a conventional sense, which can be a little hard to relate to, but they're definitely no Supermen. Istvan Czernin, the humanform inhumanity of World War I, was definitely my favorite. He was an unlikely force of good who found himself at odds with an ominous utopia. If you want to believe that good and evil are in hearts, not powers, then this book is for you.

The magic is loosely explained, but my favorite aspects were in some great yet pithy lines. "Innovation in magic was akin to innovation in falling." The writing kept me from trying to reverse engineer all that was going on, and instead just reading along for the ride.

I highly recommend this book for the words it weaves. It's unconventional but in the end that's what I liked most about it. I look forward to Paige's next novel!