Have you ever watched a really terrible low budget made for tv movie that is actually painful to watch. Like the acting is poor, the dialogue makes your brain hurt, and it's just so bad it almost seems like it must be terrible on purpose but it's not. Now imagine that in book form. That was this book. 
 I am half convinced that this book is actually just a parody of YA fantasy tropes. 
 Now maybe I went into this book expecting something else, but this book was such a disappointment. I thought this was going to be a high fantasy with a dense plot and a lot going on. It was not those things. The writing was stilted and often did not flow or read well. The dialogue was excruciating at times, and just did not come across as natural. The plot arcs sort of stumbled and fell along at times instead of developing and overall was pretty predictable. 
 The characters were interesting though, I was intrigued by Magnus for example, but everything else only hindered my enjoyment of the characters as their development was often blunt or awkward. 
 Insta-love definitely is also a thing in this book, so much so that proclamations of love between two particular characters actually had me laughing out loud because it was just so ridiculous. 
 If you're not looking for a serious or dense high fantasy and just need something to entertain then this book might suffice nicely.