Actually, this was an odd read. I liked the tale, and finished the book, quite quickly, in fact, but on the whole, I felt the prose was missing, the dialogues were dull, and the character development a bit lacking. Also, there are many slow scenes, sometimes minor and boringly detailed, while other important parts of the plot are, in my opinion, hastily outlined, with a final rush at the end of the book which climaxes in a to-be-continued sort of scene, with the main characters abruptly thrown in the storm of events you could notice brewing from about mid-book. I don't really know how to feel about the book, or the abrupt changes and the way the characters react at the end, I guess I care enough to read the next installment.
