moraa
I have to admit, I'm impressed:
1. With the world-building. It's not every day you read such complexity without getting bogged down by backstory (of course a dramatis personae helps wade through those murky waters)
2. That it took me two days to finish this, especially after all the hype about its difficulty (that may have had a hand in my decision to bump this up on my tbr)
3. That I wasn't rooting for anyone! I'm accustomed to having a character to root for (even if it's not the protagonist) and I was scrambling for my list trying to figure out which alliances I wanted to see sustained and who I'd willingly part with. It was a hot mess in that final third of the book, literally and figuratively.
4. That I can't find any scathing remarks of significance (I always have those, even for my favourite fantasy writers)
All in all, I'm definitely heading over to the second book soon.