E. A. Hooper gets the fundamentals right:
– Characters and some character development
– World building, including world monsters and world events
– Balanced fights
– Well connected plot
which is all used to explore the what if of infinite time to enjoy life and to explore the condition of being human. I wish there were more authors writing elevating books like this one and that books like this one made it to the best-seller list more often, instead of all the incongruent post-apocalyptic gloomy c**p ala Stephen King and George R. R. Martin.