What I like about this is the world. I like the magic system, the cultural structure, the cultural conflicts, and the motivations of the characters. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to get me to the end of it. I will tolerate a certain amount of romance for good fantasy, but this has TWO romantic subplots plus pretty angsty platonic and familial ones. Specific to the audio, as good a narrator as Bahni Turpin is, and she is AMAZING, I don't like having multiple 1st person perspectives read by the same narrator.