This could've been an excellent book, but the middle was just painfully boring. I really enjoy the ending (albeit rushed) and the intro was interesting enough to get me to keep reading, but I can't get over how terrible the middle was. I had to borrow this from the library at least four times until I finished it due to that slog. I'm really glad I read a different Brandon Sanderson book as my intro to him because if it had been this one??? I'd write him off entirely. Everyone keeps saying this was "like The Princess Bride if Buttercup was the heroine" and... sure, you see bits of that, but it's literally just the first 15-20 minutes of The Princess Bride dragged out for an entire novel. I had such high expectations and was extremely disappointed :/