A good opening for an interesting new series. The magic system (that we know of) seems powerful, but fair and the viewpoint characters all have a nice balance of flaws and strengths.

My only real complaint was that the first third to half of the book involved introducing a lot of characters and places with "fantasy" names. I actually ended up having to use the kindle "x-ray" to check if various supporting characters were the same people from earlier chapters.

All in all, I am very much looking forward to the next book which should do away with most of these issues by virtue of having spent an entire book introducing the cast.