This is one of those rare instances where I wish I had listened to the audiobook rather than read physically. The writing felt very dry to me, but I can easily imagine a narrator putting enough of their own emotion into the voices to make up for the lack of it in text, but alas, my eyes were unable to do that for themselves. The plot felt very reminiscent of D&D games with travel and combat between each plot point. It got to be a little tedious imo. That paired with the writing didn't really excite me to pick the book up, but I was determined to finish it to find out that much-touted ending.

The Ending was interesting, but I saw it coming. Not all the details, but the shape of it was clear to me by the halfway point. And interesting is not enough to make up for my middling opinion on the rest of the book. Overall, it just felt like someone very excited to write their D&D campaign in a novel format and I just couldn't get into these characters that I'm unfamiliar with.