I felt like there was too much exposition in this book, too much paragraph-long explaining of the school and backgrounds of characters - but it wasn't at all boring. My biggest issue was that it felt a little unbelievable that the school was safer for enclave kids that the outside world would be. For the other kids sure, but you can't really make me believe that hundreds of adult wizards couldn't keep their kids any safer than they were at a school that was actively trying to kill them at every turn. That set aside, the story was very interesting and I had a lot of fun exploring all the intricacies of the school and the magic system. Galadriel was a well-rounded main character although it felt a lot like she was her own worst enemy for 75% of the book, we can see her coming around a bit towards the end and I am looking forward to seeing where this is going in the next book!