First Light - Peter Ackroyd

Well, apparently I'm in the minority on this one, but I just couldn't stand this book.  I couldn't figure out what half of it meant and the characters were uniformly bizarre, and so misnamed that it made it hard to follow what was happening (naming a lead character Mark Clare is bound to be confusing).  The best part about it was that the chapters were very, very short, so you only had to be confused for a short period of time before you could start off being confused about something else.