To be honest, at first this book was making it so I lost my groove with reading, as you can tell with how long it took me to read.. it was just so slow the first 45% - but looking back it was understandably so to build the world and what the characters were like. Then it really picked up, some of it was a bit confusing why some things happened, but otherwise I enjoyed the book and will be getting the second. The Epilogue threw me for a loop, I wasn't expecting that character's personality to be that way deep inside (iykyk lol!)

Spice: 6/10 - A bit more spice than ToG but much less spice than Ice Planet Barbarian
Plot: 7/10 - it felt a bit rushed, but I am interested in where it goes next.
Overall: 8/10 - Good story overall and makes me think the spice will be amped up in the next book ;)