DNF @ 50% 
 I'm sorry, I just don't understand why this book has such good reviews. I rarely ever don't finish books, usually I'll suffer through a bad one to see if it gets better or just to find out how it ends and be done with it, even if I don't want to continue on to the sequels. But this book was just so unbelievably boring. The main character is boring, and the plot moves at a snail's pace. Almost right after the book begins, the main character comes to these old ladies' house and just stays there for ages. There are also some very unimaginatively named things like a town called North and a horse called Horse. Yawn. The Horse is cool, but not enough to salvage a dull story.