I, admittedly, had a hard time getting through this one. The slow plot, although necessary, was deterring to my reading pace. And with the slowness came descriptive world building. While I love world building, my own personal concentration veers off at it. I prefer lengthy character growth than lengthy world explanations. While this had both it tended to lean towards world building. I have no clue how to rate this because I was stunned by the beginning and end. I’m hovering between 3.5 and 4 so we’ll just have a little bit of a round up since my biases of how great the first book was.