I have some thoughts on this book, but sadly, most of them aren’t good. Let’s get into it.

Firstly I wanna say that I really enjoyed the character work. I felt like the characters all had distinct personalities and I liked most of them! I also enjoyed the first half of the book. I was so excited to see where the story was going. But the problem came when I got 50% into the book and the story hadn’t gone anywhere. 

This book was so slow and long winded. It took the latter 40% of the book to get through what felt like one really long scene. I spent the whole book waiting for adventure and it just wasn’t very adventurous. The descriptions during this adventure were way too long. I was incredibly bored and had to skim through a lot of the end. It also felt like there were no high stakes. The author set up these subplots with every pov character and then just discarded them when they could’ve added something to the second half of the story. It was just very stagnant. There was no plot progression. It was about exactly what it said it was about with no twists or turns within the plot. (There was one twist, but it didn’t happen till the very end and by that time I was too bored to care)

It seems like this whole book was a set up for the sequel and I honestly think it could’ve been 150 pages shorter.