Disclaimer: I did not finish this book. I DNF'ed at 20% (page 102). 
 I was so excited for this book. So excited, I tell you. It sounded like the type of fantasy/adventure that I loved...but sadly, it wasn't the case. 
 This was actually the first book I DNF'ed. As such, this book...is a disappointment. There were so many good reviews on Goodreads that I was hyped. But this book was so boring, confusing, descriptive, that I just completely stopped after a while. 
 Look, I'm fine with chapters that are 10 pages long. Heck, they can even be 30 pages long if the chapter is action-packed! But these chapters are always, always, ALWAYS about 20 pages long (from what I've seen), and 50% of it is description/info dumps. The book is just so boring, and the long chapters make it even more frustrating. 
 The Sea of Trolls is only 50 pages shorter than this book, and by page 100 you've had the main set-up of the book, you understand that the situation the characters are in is desperate, the characters have been quite developed, and a lot of exciting stuff has happened. That isn't the case with this book. 
 The Mark of Athena (which is one of my favorite books) is nearly 600 pages and by page 100, you've had many, many, many action scenes and you've gotten the gist of what the characters are doing. Things have happened, and there is little to no filler. It just gets right down to business. 
 And if you're complaining because The Mark of Athena is the third book in a series, well, take The Lost Hero. By page 100 a quest has been set up (from what I remember). There are mysteries surrounding the characters, and you want to keep going. You want to learn more. And it's exciting to read. 
 This book is beyond boring. Both Thin Wood Walls and Eldest are more exciting than this, and I shamed both of those books for being boring, too! (I didn't write a review for Eldest, but I complained about it being boring.) Thin Wood Walls was boring as heck, nothing was happening, but at least it wasn't as bad as this. I could cope with Thin Wood Walls because there were a few interesting scenes in it. 
 Eldest was boring as heck as well, but it was fine because it made up with a hectic action scene at the very end. And it also covered a lot of topics that Eragon didn't, so it was fine! It was character development and that was fine! 
 I only read EVERY OTHER DAY for this book, and I hardly felt very energized at all while reading it. I think this book put me in a sort of slumber, because I was pretty lazy during the time that I was reading this book in. 
 On top of that, I liked 0 characters in this book. Raisa was obnoxious and annoying, Han didn't seem to have a single character trait nestled inside of him, Bird I would have liked IF SHE HAD GOTTEN MORE SCREEN TIME, and Dancer was annoyingly stupid and stubborn. 
 Look, I'm FINE with hotheaded characters. I love them, usually! They're amusing to read and more often than not I adore them. But Dancer is not one of those people. His character was disgusting. 
 So I'm dropping this book. To any other poor fellow who stumbles across this, don't read it. Just...don't. I don't normally give out 1 stars, but this book was so hopelessly boring that there was nothing else! 
 Moving on.