I mostly bought this book because the publication is pretty and I love facsimiles of medieval manuscript style. This was an interesting read as an early iteration of the modern fantasy genre. However, the style is very purple prose even for the time it was written in and the characters are quite flat. It also read rather like writer insert wish fulfillment. I am intrigued by the idea of what this story could look like if it was rewritten in a more modern prose style.