2019: Wow wow wow what a waste of time. This was by no means a terrible book; in fact, I rather enjoyed large sections of it. But Rubin does not stick to the rules of the world he's created, he spends tons of chapters largely describing things that he does not explain, and the ending is one of the cheapest tricks in the cliff-hanging book. I would have thrown this book across the room when I finished it, if I had not been listening to it on my phone and that would have caused severe damage. I have no interest in reading the sequel.