This books is awesome and totally one of my favorites, I loved it! Going into the story, I was so confused and had no idea what it was going to really be about. To me, the synopsis was vague and while I went blind into this story, I'm glad I came out loving it! And I'm also glad the cover caught my eye and I had to read it, especially since I had read a previous book from this author. 
 In my opinion, by the end of it, it was still a little confusing. Especially with the whole deal of Malryx and Zophas and Zophasken, while it was entertaining to read and learn about, it wasn't really explained about their Zophasken powers and their village and such. Still, I knew vaguely what it was and either way it was still and easy read. 
 This was a well written story, I honestly didn't have anything that I didn't like, apart from being confused, and yeah, while it was a fantasy novel, romance was one of the more important aspects in it. For some reason that annoys a lot of readers and they decided to give the story a low score because of it, but if you just get past all the romance in it, you would see that the romance is a necessary thing, especially near the end when the conflict has to be resolved. Don't get me wrong, I was glad that Kaylyn ended up with the love of her life Jorrin, but at the expense of Marsa of her best friend. And yes, you read correctly- there is a sort of reverse love triangle in which both Kaylyn and Marsa (her best friend) are in love with Jorrin (their other best friend). It was easy to see from the beginning that Jorrin liked Kaylyn and so did she but she kept pushing him away because of her best friend. Because of that, she always suffered and while on this journey to save the next village, you could see all the sweet moments between them. I could easily tell how much Jorrin cares for Kaylyn before she even did and when it said out loud, I just wanted them to have their happy ending, and they did, somewhat. 
 Now, this book was full of action and had tidbits of humor. I was really engrossed in this book, I was so immersed in the story that I coudln't put it down, I had to know more about the evil spreading over the land and how they were going to stop it. The world building was incredible, I really liked the detail the author put into her story, even if she could have used some of that in explaining the characters' powers. 
 Either way, it was awesome and I went on the author's website and it said that there is going to be a book called Savage Light that is about Marsa, and while it's still not clear on much of the details, I know that it's a companion novel, and whether it's a direct sequel or a short novella or the same story in Marsa's view, I am still looking forward to reading it! Can't wait to read more novels by this author.