4.63 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

WOW!
adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It would be 5 stars if the whole book was as fire as the last 100 pages
adventurous funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

CANT PUT THIS SERIES DOWN
adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad
adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I actually can’t decide if I liked it or not, but it was an extremely detailed, well thought out world, and I appreciate that. That also might be part of the issue though, some detail could have been trimmed in favor of plot.
I kind of feel like this one was all set up for the next books. I’m really attached to the characters now though… perhaps a bit of Stockholm Syndrome after all the time I had to spend with them.
Even though I really liked the three main characters, they all had similar internal battle between right and wrong, and it got a bit annoying to read them all hemming and hawing so much. Basically I think there could have been some trimming, but once I got into the world and writing I didn’t mind as much.
I wasn’t sure if I’d read the second book, but the last 50 pages or so have left me with no other choice.
But I’m still giving it four stars because credit where credit is due and it was a well written, hefty story. I’m ready for a more of a plot though and less exposition!