It was a struggle to get started with the book, not that it was necessarily slow. But there was a lot of history to explain and world building to do. However, this picked up around 100 pages in. I thoroughly enjoyed the diversity of characters, and felt that the characters were well developed. I’m looking forward to learning more about some of the side characters, as well as more of the world they live in. The plot was engaging, and it was hard to set the book down at times. There were some interesting twists as well. It did feel like the book wrapped up quickly, more quickly than I had anticipated.