It took me two months to finish this. Not because it's not good - I really liked it! But somehow I could not read more than a chapter at a time. I don't know why. I liked El and Kem, the Haunt was great as well and I have absolutely no idea how this will continue in the second book. The writing needed a bit of getting used to but it was beautiful. The world was amazingly built and I really loved that we have high fantasy and one of the main characters is queer - and almost everyone just accepts it (there's one person struggeling with the fact, told retrospectively, and one person being an asshole about it). Plotwise I always had a feeling that there wasn't that much happening but I never got bored as we follow El and the whole party down the road. I'm really looking forward to the second book!