Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Very typical sentence from this book: "There was, as yet, no official temple in Ors - these are all primarily dedicated to Amaat, any other gods on the premises take lesser places, and the head priest of Ikkt had not seen her way clear to demoting her god in its own temple, or identifying Ikkt with Amaat closely enough to add Radchaii rites to her own". Putting aside, just for a moment, the run-on sentence and unbelievably bad writing overall (any high school writing teach would give it an "F"), it is an absolutely unintelligible sentence. I read 75 pages prior to it and I have absolutely no idea what these things are, what any of it means, or how anyone could possibly care. No, I did not spend hours picking my way through to find the worst sentence in the book. I actually picked it quite at random. MOST of the sentences in the book are just as run-on, just as poorly written, and just as indecipherable. And no, none of them became any more clear when I read on. I read about 20 sci fi books a year. I love a few, enjoy most and find virtually all of them worthwhile. Only once every few years do I encounter a book that is so bad that I can't finish it. I could not finish this one and it is easily the worst book that I've ever tried to read. I kept at it for days trying to find what the award people and four/five star reviewers enjoyed. I just went back and read a few dozen of the high reviews to see what I was missing with the idea that I'd start over and look harder for those positive attributes. Unfortunately, they mostly just say that it's a good story with good characters (neither of which I can understand) and many even say that it's good writing (which absolutely boggles my mind). So, I went ahead and read the 1* reviews and found virtually all of them to be spot-on. It is as indecipherable and boring as the 1* reviewers say. I have a pretty good imagination but can't even begin to fathom what the four and five star reviewers are referring to. I realize that this pretty much comes down to a "he said"/"she said" as to whether it's good or not but all I can do is tell you that I found it to be a brutal slog with not a single redeeming quality that I saw or could possibly anticipate. I highly recommend that you spend your money elsewhere. At a minimum, if you have a Kindle, get a sample first and know that it gets more dense and nonsensical as it goes, rather than less.