Under the Poppy

This book was a chore to get through. It had beautiful pose, lush and lyrical. So much so that I continually lost the plot and started forgetting which character was which. To be honest, I was able to get through the first hundred to hundred and fifty pages easily, but then it just become difficult to follow. I often fall asleep while reading, but less than halfway through the it, it would knock me out in four or five pages. Also, in my opinion, it barely qualifies as speculative fiction. It won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2011, and the author's books continue to be nominated for the award, so it must be the publisher categorizing the books as fantasy. I saw it labeled as slipstream on one site, which means, according to Wikipedia, a literary genre that pushes the boundary between traditional fiction and either science fiction or fantasy. I guess I can see that.

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