I have mixed feelings with this book. The first half needs some serious editing, it could definitely stand to loose 100-200 pages there. It does start to ramp up at the halfway point which I was really glad for but it didn't sustain that excitement and I really struggled at the end to care about what was happening. The characters didn't really develop, I feel they were largely the same people at the end as they were at the start. The only thing that will keep me reading this series is the fact that I do quite like the lore and obviously the dragons. So overall, it had some good parts but was on the whole just a bit boring to me.