This book has a lot of potential but it just didn’t work for me . Firstly, I think pacing was just a bit slow to keep attention. I think the running theme being nodded at about the need for nature preservation is wonderful . The personification of the trees and movements of nature as the work of the people of Rhiza was done well . The MC was hard to like for a good majority of the book. I also felt like there were details thrown in that didn’t mean anything to the story line .