I didn't quite like all of the "action scenes". But all in all, I really enjoyed this book, the magic system is pretty awesome (and remainds me of Sanderson's works), the characters and the plot are well developed. Karris is a kick-ass woman and I pretty like Kip's whiny though yet brave character.

Difficult to add a rating here, I still think I have no clue how the drafting really works or what it is. They can draw it from other colors or from their own bodies? Interesting is, that this magic has a cost and reduces the life span. The perfect color 'failure' was a bit odd for me, they never noticed that Gavin used perfect colors although he is no superchromat?

I can see what others are saying.... I've heard other reviewers complain that this book is sexist, and going by the sections they talk about I understand why, but I would say they misunderstand what is going on. Though this book is written in second person, it doesn't mean we are not seeing things through a particular person's eyes. In the case of these sections, we are seeing through a fairly immature 15 year old boy, though I'm not saying all 15 year old boys are sexist, of course they are going to look at women, shall we say, in a particular way! Putting that aside, this book planted some intriguing tidbits to really want to make me want to read on, did it bowl me over? No, but it's rare for the first book in a series to do so.