I loved it. It leaves me wondering a bit, how come. It feels a bit like it has all the clichés I am usually bored with. But I guess they were done so well that I loved it.

It has a love story with an awesomely powerful / magical being. But I rooted for it, I wanted it to work.

It has a main hero who seems to want to keep too much to himself, but he didn't feel annoyingly stupid for it, even though at times I was inwardly yelling at him to do things differently, I still found him a thoroughly believable and reasonable character.

It has a very action-kind of finale but it fit.

It has a mystery to keep me in the book, but honestly, I kept listening because I enjoyed it, so I didn't mind the mystery "hook".