Tor claimed that Melle and Eirik were his children because their father was infertile (too much dragon orchid beer will do that). Svako novo poglavlje je nova priča, koja poput dela neke slagalice, traži da se postavi na pravo mesto i upotpuni celinu. My first reaction was to think of CLOUD ATLAS, but the more I read this story, the more I found myself racing through the pages, I began to realize it was something else entirely. It's a fascinating reminder that there's more than one kind of love and more than one way to express it.

It’s a circuitous book that makes sense only if you read the entire book from beginning to end, taking note of every instance of their lives, especially noting the very last vignette and the happenings of the beginning (well, it is the beginning – the beginning is the end is the beginning is the end is a Smashing Pumpkins song with some more endings). While Sedgwick definitely has a way with sensory imagery and language, its sparseness both contributed to the mystique of this story, of all of the characters and how they tied into each other and the past(using the relationship web school of worldbuilding), and he can describe a whole lot in only a few words, I feel like he could have expanded upon some of that language, characters, and world just a teeny tiny bit more and still retain how gorgeously dark this book was. This novel is a little tough to summarize, but we're going to anyway because we're awesome like that (you know, if we do say so ourselves). Part of it comes from the structure itself, divided in small chapters, each story set in a different era as they go back in time. This section is loaded with suspense and is chillingly beautiful as Sedgewick uses evocative language to describe the disturbing events which are going on.Each story occupies a different genre, though they all have the dreamlike quality that pervades the entire novel. And then when he was dying he was suddenly 'ooh, I'm going promise to live more lives so I can be with my fave wife again, also me saying that we'll be together again will ensure my supposed beloved wife will never move on from me, also I want my last words to be dramatic'.

The story is complex, revolving around characters known mostly through the years as Eric and Merle – a changing cast of ages, times, and once gender (sort of) that all comes back to the fact that Erik and Merle are the spirits of two people wrapped in an ancient love, tied to Blessed Island. Like some of his other work, this book does not shy away from brooding atmospheres and gruesome deaths, but at no time do they feel gratuitous: they are absolutely integral to the pagan belief which is the basis of the book, and always point beyond themselves to their ultimate purpose.Duše Erika i Merl se u svakoj priči iznova pronalaze i gube, ali nisu u svakoj priči ljubavnici niti su istih godina. One thing is certain— Sedgwick has a talent for dramatic tension This book was just so twisty and fascinating that I couldn't put it down.