It was a decent book but nothing mindblowing. For telling its story in a meaningful and compelling way, it was just too short. The romance, the sibling rivalry and the conflict between Hammerfell and Storn (so, all the major plot drivers) just fell flat because they weren’t developed enough for me to care. And if I hadn’t read books from the series before I don’t think I would have understood the magic. However, some smaller parts, like basically everything about Ermine and how life were Conn grew up was like, were really interesting to me. The writing was nice, too. All in all, I did like it, however everything was built up too much for being resolved that easily. I still had some fun with it.