Iara

I'm not rating it as high as I should because the start was really slow and I'm personally not interested in reading about how people battle, but I enjoyed it a lot overall and will continue with the series.

You can see the clear ‘influences' from The Lord of the Rings, but it still had enough differences and compelling characters to make for an interesting read.

I started reading this in English and had to change to Spanish after the first three chapters because it was just too hard for me to know what was happening. But, once I went into the Spanish version, everything got better. I feel like the translator made the book better, so props to them for that. The story is interesting even if there's not a lot of assassin things happening until the last 30% of the book, which was disappointing.

This whole book was meh. I found the characters bland and the plot boring. I expected more from a book so hyped, specially for its characters, than  rich snobby kids running around getting drunk and high while thinking they're the smartest people in the room. I feel like it was way too long. The very little that happens could have happened in 200 pages less. And I was also disappointed the professor wasn't in it more, just because of the blurb. Don't go in thinking he appears much because he doesn't.

I didn't know anything about the plot when I started reading, I found it strange but obviously also incredible. I can't wait to read the second one after that ending.