I was so sure I would fall in love with UPROOTED I almost purchased it before I had the opportunity to check it out at the library. It sounded like it was made for me and I was convinced I'd adore it. Sadly, it was like THE FIFTH WAVE all over again-another book that everyone loved and yet found myself wanting to DNF. I stuck in there and finished UPROOTED though, and while the ending was impressive, getting there was a serious challenge. 
 The pacing is my number one complaint. There was slow pacing when the plot could have benefited from a faster pace, and vice versa. Huge chunks of the book were just so slowwwww. It didn't help that the pages were rarely broken up by dialogue, so most of them are just filled with long paragraphs of random descriptions. Needless to say, the pacing brought me down. 
 When it comes to the characters, Agnieszka, the heroine, is the stereotypical Chosen One with an "endearing" flaw: she's clumsy as hell. If I had a dollar for everything we are told how disheveled she was and how messy she looked... Argh. 
 I found the other characters to be lacking depth and some of them just felt there. Taking up space but not really contributing anything. Even the mysterious Dragon felt one-dimensional and I'm still not entirely sure what's the deal with him 430 pages later. There's distant and aloof and then there's just cold. The Dragon was just straight up mean to Agnieszka sometimes. 
 There were two romance scenes. TWO. And those two were so randomly interspersed with the rest of the story the actual romance development felt like it came out of nowhere and disappeared for the next 200 pages. I'm not even sure I could tell you what happened in those in-between pages. I was just kind of half there, turning the pages at that point. 
 All I wanted to do was get through this so I could start something else. I usually love any fantasy book with a hint of romance but this one just stretched out my patience. 
 UPROOTED's beginning was intriguing and its ending felt truly magical and inspiring. I seriously loved the ending; the last hundred pages made me bump up the rating and the resolution was so great-things were revealed and it all came together nicely. However, I can't forget the extremely tedious middle.