This book started out very slow for me and there were a few times I wanted to mark the book as DNF, but I kept going because I heard the book was really good. About 200 or 300 pages in, I started to really get into the book. The Empire is seriously messed up and I love reading where certain societies having something dysfunctional about them, aka I really love dystopian like books. I will probably read the next book in the series.