It has me very interested in continuing the story for sure. It is really a 3.75 stars, but at this stage I can't give it a 4. I am hoping, from reading all of my friends comments that the series develops well. I can see that happening. There has been some very nice character building (the narration on audio is excellent), but I really want to see a development of said characters now to push this story into the 4 star realm. Secondly, I want to see a bit more depth to the story, this did feel at times like a novella, but having already started the next book (1 chapter) I can see the thread is carrying on. There were parts to this book where I felt the story was rushed and large chunks of emotional story building were just not there and so at times I felt that i didn't have enough buy in to care. That sounds way harsher than I mean it to, but I am crap at trying to explain it any better. 
 So my impression is, that the author has this huge idea and being the first part of the story is trying to get it all down and get into other parts and worrying that people will get bored with the details of like, raising an army and marching to a siege, so why not just make it happen next page, you know, like it happened in the ad break and then we can get back to the action bits. 
 I am confident that this will change, bear in mind I read a lot of Erikson, Hamilton and Reynolds, not ones for skipping bits, too much info some might say, but that is the reading field I am coming from, so this was short on detail for me to give it the 4 stars. 
 Looking forward to book 2.