This book honestly made me a little bit sad. Because I loved the story line and the set up of the characters, but it was missing the depth of character development that I crave. Don't get me wrong... I can compromise plot for character development some. But when it's completely lacking, there is just no emotion. This book could have had a lot of that if more emphasis had been placed on letting us inside the characters' heads.
The more I think about it, the more I think the reason is just there was too much story packed into this book. I think it could have been two books and had more balance between character and plot development. But I would definitely give this author another shot. I think there's definitely some promise, and this was not a terrible first start.