The books in Alexandria Quartet would definitely make it to my list of top ten hardest to follow novels. I feel like I would have enjoyed the story and characters more if the damn thing at least narrated the events in sequence.
Positive: | Negative: |
Describes the exotic city of Alexandria | Overwritten flowery prose |
Thought-provoking on free sexuality | Overly poetic composition makes the story hard to follow |
Slow, lethargic pace | |
Both characters and plot are filtered through some sort of haze making it hard to care about either of them |