I was unable to finish this book. I trudged through the first 120 pages,then, which I have never done with a book before, threw it aside and never looked back at it again.I understand it takes time to get a story set-up and rolling, and it looked like it was in the very beginning. It seemed somewhat intriguing, but then it suddenly stopped, and aside from 2 actual incidents of something happening, the rest was a bunch of people telling tales of folklore, which are old stories we have heard before, told just slightly different.I have read Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series, and as long winded and sometimes boring as it gets, it had nothing to compare to this.In all fairness, I should have been fore-warned by the title...The Ill-made Mute pretty much tells you the main character has no voice, and though the author uses many words, has no actual voice either.