It's been a while since I'd gotten halfway through a book and could not go to sleep until I finished it because I had to know what happened.
So thank you for giving me that again.
While the beginning is not exactly slow, the book did feel like it took a while to really get going, but the payoff for all the world building and the investment in all the characters was totally worth it.
And I'm really liking this trend I've seen of moving epic fantasy out of the Middle Ages. Seriously, this book was really brilliant.