Review: Surprising
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
I admit to not having high expectations with this book and having to struggle in the first chapters to stay interested.  What I received was quite a charming book and a good start to a new series.  A few negatives the book is written almost exclusively in the 1st person but a several times a sentence or two comes in as a retrospective and it jarred me out of the story.  Another small negative is that while the main character is 18 he reads as a bit younger which was the main reason it took me longer to get into the book.  All in all a interesting book with good touches of various magical systems and a good foundation for an fun series.