I'm almost 300 pages in and I still do not give two fucks about anything and I actually physically dread picking this back up. I don't even want to try to finish it for brownie points to say I did it. 

I went in prepared for complex world-building, a lush cast of characters, political intrigue and magic... I got some guy's poorly written D&D campaign. It's not confusing or complex, it's just boring and the author isn't a good enough writer to pull it off. The plot is contrived, the characters have no depth, the dialogue is boring, and the author builds the world through pages of infodump. Literally like you are reading a D&D campaign.

The preface annoyed me so bad I should have known this wasn't going to be good. I'm finally giving up after he introduced a character that talks only in the third person.