As much as I love Martha Wells' work, I didn't fall in love with this book, not just at the beginning, but along it either. There is in this story a love for killing people to solve problems that didn't sit well with me. The main character, Kai (not Kai-Enna, who is only one of the impersonations of him) feels a bit plain, not nuanced. I kept thinking he didn't have a personality. He just... acts. He is not a bad person but he goes around just killing people. The magic also felt kind of inconsistent and random to me. Nothing gets well explained, and things that can and cannot be done are just "there" for no apparent reason. The characters in general are archetypes, not particularly deep or well designed... If you compare these characters to the Raksura ones, there is a world of difference. I don't know, it just felt... shallow.