I didn't much like it. The story itself was okay, and I kind of liked the part was "the champions" part, and maybe it's just that I found the personalities (well, the main personality) distasteful at best, but section on the villains was pretty bad.
For one thing, I could never tell whether the narrator speaking in the present, the past, even the future. Time in general, in the book was somewhat ethereal and unknowable. I don't know, overall, it was just a story that just didn't make or leave any kind of positive impression on me.