I wasn’t expecting much from this book since I’d never heard of it and I only picked it up because it was 50 cents at Goodwill, and most of the other books are 75 cents or something. So I was surprised by how good it was.

On the other hand, it wasn’t great. The characters were deep and well developed, but I got the sense that I was looking at them with big blind spots that I couldn’t understand. Kind of like the author’s head was in the way whenever I tried seeing or understanding a character. Or maybe the author herself didn’t quite understand the characters. But it did make a shot at least of making some decent character development and growth, which gave it big points. However a lot of the minor characters seemed EXACTLY THE SAME. At some points I got confused as to who was who, especially with background characters who had similar names. At one point I got really really confused because a minor good guy and a minor bad guy had almost the same name: Lleyn and Lyell. For a long time I thought they were one person until they appeared in the same scene 556 pages into the book v_v;

I also enjoyed the interesting magic which I haven’t encountered before.

However the dialogue seemed Middle Schoolish, and I didn’t like how all of the characters were “funny” but they were all the same kind of funny that wasn’t very funny. Like that was the author’s way of who had a good personality who who didn’t, basically, all the good guys were funny and had the same sense of humor. They were constantly stifling laughter and smiles, which annoyed me.

However, I still enjoyed the book.