I generally love Orhan Pamuk novels. His writing is descriptive in a way that is unmatched by any contemporary author. Unfortunately this book was not for me. It was incredibly descriptive in a way that only seemed to add pages to the book, no joke this book honestly added pages on my ereader as I read it. Perhaps, if this had been historical fiction taking place in a real country, it may have not been as painful, but this was too much effort for a fictional revolution on a fictional island.