but have been so busy hadn't had time to report back. It's a very big, very long book and it took me the first 200 pages to get into it at all. I usually put one down after the first 100 if it doesn't catch my interest but didn't have anything else to read at the time. All of the other books I was waiting for had long queues of people who'd reserved them ahead of me, and since I have to have a book at bedtime I plowed on through.
It really was about page 200 when I decided I needed to find out what happens to everyone so would keep reading. I didn't like Erasmus from the very first he was introduced. He just wasn't a very likeable person, had a distinct problem in that he was very one dimensional, wasn't able to view things any other way than according to his own opinion. His views on the woman he wanted to marry were more akin to ownership than love (even though he thought he loved her), all of which gave the only validity to his very flimsy reasoning for disliking his cousin and being so driven where he was concerned.
In addition to struggling with liking him at all, I had a hard time reading the language of the colony at the end of the book, but understood how it evolved.
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