I know that deLint is classic, and that everyone should like it because of that, but I didn't like this. Yes, it is going to be different from newer urban fantasy, but it wasn't the slow pace that bothers me. I mean, I have read epic fantasy that progresses at a snails pace. It was more the overall feel of the novel. It just felt like it was from a different time, and that I would have had to be alive then to appreciate it. The style just really didn't sit well with me, and of course the plot, characters, and setting weren't that appealing to me either. It would be like reading an urban fantasy twenty years from now that was just published recently. People might not understand the Harry Potter references, the weird abbreviations, and other references to pop culture that are so overused in books now. I understand that all of those things make books relevant to the time, but something was lost in translation here. Not my style.