Although I have not been the target audience for YA books for a while now, I do enjoy most of the ones I pick up. This was a little to YA for me. I just did not connect with the MCs. Mid book Selwyn found his way to my heart a little :) but over all I just did not care that much what happened to them.

Another reason I didn' enjoy this book as much as I would have liked, was the magic system. I am just not a fan of the Authorian legend. I never have been. And to be honest it took me a while to grasp all the pages, merlins, shadowborn vs once born vs legendborn. 

I think the writing was good even if I would have preferred less of the exposition. 

One aspect I found really interesting was the secondary magic system. I think if this book was more about root magic I would have liked it a lot more.