Read the sample first to see if you can tolerate the margins in this ebook. You can’t change margin size once bought.

Gene Wolfe builds a complete, seamless, and complex world through the eyes of Severian the torturer at the far end of the life span of the Sun. Mountains consist of the compressed ruins of countless long forgotten civilizations and are populated by other worldly beings and simple humans who are described with a vibrant immediacy and unapologetic complexity. The only caveat I'd place on this magnificent writer is that he is not for the lazy or superficial reader.

This review is for this book as a novel. If I were reviewing awesome ways to go to sleep, this review would be much higher.

Can’t describe this book by comparing it to something similar. I don’t think there’s another book like “The Shadow of the Torturer”.

Loved this book.

I loved every strange and otherworldly page of this book.

Best scifi book I've ever read