God did I try with this series... but I can’t appreciate it and I’m not sure why cause when you look at it, it has everything to make a great book, but the ingredient just don’t blend together. The writing is good, no problem there and the universe is interesting. The problem for me is that there’s way too many characters that we introduce then don’t speak of for 40 pages, and then bring back and it’s hard to keep track of all those third hand characters. The mix between reality (New-York) and the fantasy world/aspect of it was not a big win for me. I can read contemporary, I can read fantasy, but mixing them together didn’t please me that much. It also was way too big, not that I have problem with big book, but just seem unedited and that some part of it may have been cut because they were kind of unnecessary. In the end, it just feels a bit too ambitious with all that big story, plot and universe and didn’t achieve to fully deliver it. Maybe I’m the problem because it seems to have a really big hype around this series, but unfortunately I didn’t like it.