I really did want to like this better than I did. I loved the characters, loved the story, loved the world building. But I didn't enjoy the writing. The short sections the story was told in felt choppy and the omniscient narrator with present tense didn't work at all for me. And I constantly felt like I was being talked down to in the way he spelled out all his themes explicitly.

I also really hate when writers start at the ending and go back to the beginning of the story. It seems like such a cheap way to gain interest, and I'm not interested in the story at that point. I'm bored of the story because I'm already focused on where it ends.

But overall I did enjoy this book and I will be reading the sequel, I just hope the writing style goes a bit better for me in that one because the story itself was wonderful.