Before reading this book I don't think I'd have been able to imagine how a story could be both action-packed and incredibly slow at the same time, and I honestly don't know if that's the book itself or just me. I found it fascinating already from the prologue, and the action starts very early on, but the severe lack of dialogue for the first 250 pages just made me feel like things were taking forever. The first half of the book took me three weeks; the last half took me a few hours. That aside, though, I ended up really loving it, and checked out the sequel within five minutes of finishing (reading on my break at work FTW). Excellent world-building, excellent protagonist, excellent cast of supporting characters. I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series.