90% of this book was super slow paced and felt like an info dump. But the ending made it worth it. And I've read more boring books, if you can handle long paragraphs about magic systems you'll make it through this.

Admittedly this took me a lot longer to finish than books that I have been excited about.

I really hope the sequel will pick up the pace.

Oh, and the author has been claimed to be racist because the main character who has an affinity for death and destruction is half Indian (maybe??? please don't take my word for it, I only remember the mention of Mumbai). But it's explained in the book that your affinity isn't something you choose, rather something that just is, like brown hair or green eyes, and El is not a bad person, in fact she tries her best to steer away from death and destruction so I'll just let you make your own deductions from that.