Morgon is a minor Prince of a farming land, who has beaten a ghost in a riddle game and won an ancient crown. Morgon goes to find the High One in the mountains and is attacked by shape shifters.

I don't understand very much about this story. The writing is so disjointed, it's hard to make sense of what is being said or done. The world-building is all over the place, nothing is explained, the magic system is completely disordered.

It's like the author tells the story backwards in little spurts. The first scene is three people arguing, and at the END of that scene I'm finally told that the three people are siblings. One of the three siblings says, "Did you go to such-and-such place before or after they died?" But never says WHO died, and the reader is left to wonder in confusion. Ten pages and three scenes later, I finally find out that their parents died.
Everything is explained out of sequence, or just never explained at all.

The problem is when you are building an entirely new fantasy world, with its own laws of physics, its own magic system, its own map and countries, politics and civilizations, customs and manners, and all of it, you NEED TO EXPLAIN IT! It needs to make sense, and flow WITH the story, not AGAINST it.

This was very frustrating to read, and I DNF'd it after page 35.