I didn't dislike this book, but it took me way longer than usual to slog through this for some reason. I liked the world and the magic in it, but something about it did not keep me captivated and make me want to keep reading and I'm not sure what it was. It might've just been that the characters were a little on the dry side, overall. I didn't find any of them to be particularly interesting--their lives were and their abilities and the like, but they didn't really have much by the way of personalities. Nobody had that special spark and they all just felt very cardboardy.