thepunktheory
I'll tell you upfront: this is not the most amazing book out there. You can tell that Kahler hadn't been a seasoned writer yet and this was one of his first attempts at a novel.
Nevertheless, I think he did a decent job.
The story is interesting enough and surprising at times. It wasn't quite what I had expected from the title, but hey - let's just go with the flow. Some characters have more depth than others, meaning that many of the side characters will feel like a bit of blur as some of them are rather similar.
As we are talking about characters. It's 100% obvious who Kahler's inspiration for Queen Mab was. Kahler's saying she totally looks like Cher with every single word that describes her. To be honest, at times it got a bit irritating for me.
What annoyed me a bit about the story is the whole love story part. I don't know how important all of it will be later on, but in this first part you could cut much of it. The same goes for sex scenes or scenes approaching that aspect. Kahler went a little overboard here. It didn't add too much to the story and often I ended up rolling my eyes at another one of those moments.