I started this book up and then put it down for a year, despite enjoying the beginning I got bogged down in the School chapter which I just didn't find that interesting. It picked up after that, though! However, the romance at the end genuinely baffled me. I liked the female lead as a character, but I struggled to see why someone so different from her (he liked studying for the sake of studying, she doesn't and faked an interest to get what she wanted) would have romantic interest in her, and it seemed a little out of the blue to me. If the author had just stopped before the romance bit I would have been satisfied.
Mostly. Her having access to 7 familiars when every other character has apparently 1 at most seemed... a bit over the top (especially since she only uses 3 - why did she need so many extra, then?), and I kept expecting this theft of familiars from the other world to be the reason magic stopped pouring. Not so - totally different reason, although an enjoyable one.