2.5 Rounded up.

While I felt neutral toward this book, I felt that it was too long for where the story went. It took me over a month and a half to get through it. And while I did pick it up and read it regularly, and didn’t dread continuing it, it wasn’t holding my attention well enough to want to read it over other things.
While I thought the idea of using soul magic to power the realm was a very interesting form of magic system, the other aspects of this book fell a little flat. I didn’t really care much about the main character or what she did and found the side characters to be more interesting than her. (Specifically, Tatterlain and Yali). In the beginning, as with a lot of high fantasy (granted), the world building was a bit confusing in my opinion and not very clear. I did like the different perspectives back and forth between the Castellan and Kat to give a dual perspective to the revolution.

I thought this book was fine, but its not one that I am going to think about much later, and I am not sure if it’s a series I would like to continue. It was okay. I think investing almost 600 pages of reading to feel not a lot was disappointing.