[audiobook]

My succinct feelings on this are that it basically wasn't as good as I expected.

I definitely enjoyed the world-building and descriptions of the environment as well as the actions of mountain climbing. The characters themselves, though, held little interest for me, and I rarely felt invested in any of them. I did appreciate whenever Kamzin spoke about her family, and her adventurous mother, but honestly, everything felt like it had very little depth. Also a few of the secret twists in the story were generally predictable to me, and I didn't feel any surprise or urgency when they were revealed.

I also don't usually review too much of the actual audiobook production, but right from the start, this narrator had little to no inflection when reading the text (except for dialogue, I guess) and it really broke immersion for me.