In this book I was already familiar with the world set up for this series, and it had a lot of brain-magic, that pretty much contradicts whatever I know about how human brains work, and that annoyed me in a supposedly sci-fi novel.
The new friend group development was kind of cool and enjoyable. The "saving this one person is somehow more important than a small town of strangers" thing was rearing its head a bit.
Still, light, fun and such, in this cool world with aliens, not all of whom are just weird looking humans.