Amazing world building, and the mysteries were super interesting. Plot really picked up about halfway through, and I finished the rest of the book in one day.

You can tell this is Stewart's first novel, because some plot developments felt unnatural and there were many situations I felt like the characters should've figured things out much faster than they did. Also many of the emotional parts felt... unrefined and didn't hit quite as hard as I wanted them to. But the world and its mysteries were more than enough to keep me engaged past these couple complaints