Let me preface this by saying that I adored Taran's Summoner series. So I may have had unhelpfully high hopes for this.

A lot slower paced than I expected, with a lot of repetitive phrases and sentences, which I don't usually find with Taran's writing. But overall an exciting world and I loved the magic system, just wanted a little more from the characters and perhaps less repetitive filler. Also, not a lot of dragon action. I am hopeful the next installment will give us more.

But if you love slower, high fantasy books, with no spice, and well thought out, in depth magic systems - then this will be for you.