Pros: I couldn’t think coherently for at least an hour after I was done
Cons: None
Rating: 6 out of 5

Review copy courtesy of Penguin Group.
Also posted on Epinions.com.

That “6 out of 5″ rating up there isn’t a typo. I try to avoid doing that—out of more than 700 reviews I’ve only done it a couple of times—because it feels like hyperbole. Really what it means is that, to me, a book is on a different scale when compared to “normal” books. Fiona Patton’s The Golden Tower is one of those exceptional books. Have you ever read a book that swept you up so thoroughly, so completely, into its world that you came out of it feeling… like you hadn’t quite left it yet? Like its echoes were still present around you? That’s how I felt after I finished The Golden Tower.

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