Gah, I feel bad giving this book 2 stars...but it should have been 400 pages shorter. 

The first half was filled with no plot, no conflict, and no tension at all. I got into a major slump and it took me two months to get to the 400 page mark. 

From there, I read the rest in less than two weeks. There was so much plot just thrown in to wrap up the story and the series. So many random comments, characters suddenly being important after not being spoken about for hundreds of pages. 

It was clear this was done to wrap up and obviously set up for their new series about the Cobalts...but I'm a little early of that now too, seeing as how many years have passed by the end of the book.