** spoiler alert ** while the plot was interesting, it never actually got around to DOING anything with it! the world set up (and the main character) were fascinating, but it had waaaaaaaay too many fight scenes in super detail, and not enough moving the hell along with the plot! i mean, come on here... i know only 1 thing more about the resolution of the plot than i did when i started the book. and that thing that i know isn't even in this book (go to this place and find this item... but not in this book!). it's a little ridiculous. and don't get me wrong, i love a good action scene, but this would have been a pretty movie (lots of fight scenes). if they finished the plot in the next book, that is. however, i was so irritated with this one that i'll give number 2 a pass and just wait for the movie (there's bound to be one eventually).