Takes a few hundred pages for the action to get going. But I really loved it when it kicked off. My interest dissipated a bit towards he end though. Some of the actions taken by the characters are a bit stupid, which I always fi d really grating (e.g. some elite mercenary dies in a really stupid way because it makes the story more dramatic). The world is really original and richly drawn though. I loved the wyrmen. Overall liked it a lot.