This is the book equivalent of art school - superficial, inwardly focused on wordplay and writing rather than world building, and trying too hard to be witty to actually make a point. If you like style over substance and an author who wants to desperately show you how quirky he is while name-checking some well known authors, then this is the book for you. It doesn’t really get anywhere other than to let you know another book is coming, and it takes quite a while to do so. In fairness to the other, I prefer a fantasy series where I am able to visualize the alternate worlds and the characters. It is almost as if the authors makes the character descriptions purposely obtuse to try to drive home the weirdness of this world. But I found that made it very difficult for me to get immersed in the story. If you are not a very visual person, you may enjoy this type of story better than I did.