Although it may be an unpopular opinion, I liked the pacing -- but then, I got this as an ARC and didn't read what it was about before beginning. I liked being slipped into a mostly-ordinary world and then jerked out of it. It was nice to get cozy with the characters before digging into the more supernatural aspects of the plot. I liked this one a lot -- reminded me of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. I'm also a fan of older novels with less intense action and plotting and more meandering (though I didn't think that The Quick was lacking in action). Although it didn't tug at my heartstrings or hit me very hard, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this novel and found myself wanting to pick it up when I wasn't reading it.