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 I usually don't use the jacket copy when writing the summaries for my blog, but with this book I don't think I really had a choice. A lot of stuff is going on in this book and that summary was very helpful when I was trying to keep everything straight. Again, this was another book, that I had a feeling that I was going to give up on. In fact, there were a few times where I hovered over the return button, but something happened as I was chugging along that would make me give the book another chapter. 
 So if you haven't figured it out yet, this book is slow. Like slower than most books. You're given a lot of information and introduced to a lot of characters before you even hit chapter three. However, if you can stick it out through the lagging and information overload, this book is actually quite interesting.