This was an okay book for me. That said it is one of the better fantasies I've personally read. Now, to be fair, high fantasy is not really my bag. So you can take the remainder of the review with the proverbial grain of salt.

It wasn't high handed and the world building didn't take up a majority of the story, like others I've read. However, there were lots of unnecessary characters and plot points that seemed to serve to drag the book out. This is a series though so it could have been planting seeds for growth later. But even if that were the case this book could have done with more than a bit of editing. At the beginning it focused so much on Kisara as a young girl. Then it ran through a montage of vignettes until she got a bit older. There were threads of specific plots that were dangled only to know get really fulfilled or get explained as an aside.

The character's personalities also weren't very consistent throughout the book. Even the main character seemed a bit wishy-washy on more than one occasion. There was a love triangle of sorts, but I felt that was one part that was well done. Kisara was very clear about her feelings for one of the males was a sisterly love.

Again it was a good book but a lot of it seemed superfluous. It says this is series on the cover though so I understand that a lot of that was due to wanting to explain more in the rest of the series. It just seemed like unnecessary parts were expanded on and necessary parts were cut short, which robbed the reader a little bit.