A Dark and Hollow Star

This is a hard one to rate.
It starts slow, and I was thinking, no big deal, so do a lot of book (Tad Williams anyone?), but here it never picked up speed. And the father I got into it the angrier and annoyed I got.

I guess there is a story somewhere under all this over describing? At least sometimes

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I got a glimpse of it, between the very tiring amount how someones whole apartment looks like when we are only interested in one room, or when person A and B enter a market, two pages about how the market place looks like, A and B enter a store and another page and change describing the inside plus the owner.
I understand that some people appreciate it when everything is spelled out for them (after all there are enough people who need to see a house staged otherwise they cannot envision themselves living there ...) but for me personally it is very bothersome. Not only am I not allowed to imagine the world myself, it is also distracting and boring.
This book was so bad that I had to force myself to pick it up again to finish it.
And then, when the author could have given it more pace, they completely dropped the ball with the rpg angle. Instead of having a somewhat entertaining boss battle, it is more describing about how the "dungeon" looks like than the actual battle which was over in a wink, and with it the book. That is when you realized that they have it planned as a series... ok then.
Realizing that there are more books to come, I hope that there will be more development of some of the characters, who are said to be main protagonists but were left a bit grey.

I feel kind of bad for the author, the editor should have been much more forceful to shorten a lot of scenes, as the story, when you can find it, is actually decent. Sometimes a bit heavy handed and sometimes too much on the nose, but not terrible.
It is also obvious that the author brought a lot of themselves in it so I feel a bit bad in being so critical, but on the other hand again, where was editor???

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