The writing quality is smooth and proficient. I don’t have too much to complain about here, as it’s solidly written. 

The characters are well-rounded and honestly quite loveable. At a few moments, the characters seem flatter than they need to and only the main characters really grow throughout the course of the novel. However, this doesn’t get in the way of enjoying the story and each character seems uniquely and lovingly created. 

I love the overall story, especially how it inverts common tropes and is unafraid of going boldly against what the reader might expect. I particularly enjoyed how the heroes ended up dealing with the antagonist, mostly because it wasn’t really what I was expecting. I do think that the plot was wrapped up a little too much at the end, but perhaps that’s my enjoyment of the movie’s ending getting in the way of the book’s ending. 

Slight bitter tasted post-reading simply because I had such different expectations of how exactly it was going to end. I also lost interest in the book a few times while reading, so it was a bit of a harder start than I was expecting as well.