I love fantasy--and usually gobble up the best of the genre within a couple of days. "Mists," however, was a very difficult book endure.I found the characters shallow, unlikeable and heartless. Morgaine, the protagonist, was weak, confused, amoral and inconsistently drawn. And she was about the best of the lot. Bradley hid her frail characters behind a mist of voodoo magic and New Age mistique... Peel that away, and there wasn't much of a story left.On the bright side, at least "Mists" wasn't riddled with grammatical errors. (However, in my view, removing a good 500 pages from the book would have been a wise move on the editing front.)In a nutshell: Hopeless, disturbing, confusing and dark... And far, far too long.Honestly, I'd rather have a root canal than slog through "Mists of Avalon" again.