I’ve put off reading this for four years because although it looked quite good before I bought it all I heard about it after I bought it were comments in the negative to mediocre range.

Can’t say I enjoyed it too much myself, there’s a decent story there with a reasonable central character but other things annoyed me too much for me to be interested in trying any more of the series. Some of these other things were just silly plot devices that I thought were a bit too cliched but mostly I just found the writing long winded and the book overly long for what was in it.