I loved the characters and the story line. The pace was not great.. There were few parts that repetitious and dragged and then there were parts that went way to fast or period of times that I thought were important that were most probably omitted. The story takes place in about 6 years but it covers Jules' life from his first breath. He is the Styxx of the league series but the book is much smaller in volume. He was the abused, abandoned, hated child and adult by both parents and basically everyone who ever crossed his path. I hated his parents and his aunt more than I hated his abusive crazy grandmother and his cousins. I loved his wife, his adopted son, his new mother, his children, his wife family and his new family made from true friends. In my opinion the only people from his old life who really treated him right after all was said and done were Dancer, Darling and the Iron Hammer. I loved the power he was given and the backstory behind it.