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I didn't say I didn't like it- rather, came to like it! I don't recall reading anything ever written in that manner, so it was kinda like being a peg-legged donkey in a thoroughbred race- something I wasn't prepared for. By the end I had become used to it, and sort of missed it the next series I started reading.
Keep up the fantastic work! I love your universe-building skills. (sorry if that first post came across negative. Too much to ask, not enough space to do it so it sounds terse)

(The Ukraine thing comes from a Ukrainian friend who-in broken English- ranted about the way Americans say The Ukraine.)

Lisa ... sorry, I'm not getting notifications from Goodreads for some reason. I don't think I will change "the Ukraine" because that *IS* how English speakers say it, even if it is incorrect.