Maybe if I had read this much sooner than I have, I would have found less issues with it. As it is, this book is not particularly astounding. The writing is mediocre, and the world-building iffy at best. Admittedly, this is a novella bind-up which occurs before the series, so I'll give it that. Some of them were more tolerable than others, but there were simply too many issues for me to ignore.