3.25 stars

First of all the setting and the magic system was unique, the magic system is a mixture of elemental magic and absorbing the essence if the past in a sense. The world building and the creatures were good too.

Now for the reason i gave it 3 stars is that the action scenes were good at some places but at other times makes us wanna skim over it, the battles were good especially the one about in the middle of the book, but the last battle was intense at first but the intensity and adrenaline seemed to ebb out after the initial rush.

Now for the characters well among these type of novels you get your standard likeable bloke and other supporting characters here. But the ending revelations and the journey that is intended for our protagonist to undertake really peaked my interest to read the sequel when it comes out.

Overall it was an average read for me but thus time I'll give the sequels a try too