I just found this confusing.
Too many names and sentences that were far too long.

I enjoy fantasy books, so this book is right up my alley. This is a book about a young man, Arol , and his friend , Zorn, who work at the Sacred Temple. When strange things begin happening to Arol, Zorn takes Arol to meet his uncle. Later, Arol is introduced to Bernarro, who will help him understand what has been happening to him and learn more about the magical gifts he may have. There is a lot of political intrigue as well as within the church. And then there’s a group of rebels, fighting for their cause and shaking things up. I found the book interesting and will picking up the next book in the series when it is available.

This book is an excellent merger between science fiction and fantasy. So why the three stars?

Well, the beginning really drew me in, although I did find the use of adjectives to be a little excessive. Or maybe not the adjective use so much as the wording in general of some sentences seemed to be overcomplicated for some reason. I can't quite pinpoint it, but the writing style was a little disruptive for me at times. Anyways.

I was able to overlook this because the characters Arol and Zorn were interesting to me. The world itself was also very interesting. In the first couple chapters we are put into this world where experiencing what I equated to earthquakes, with Arol trying to piece together a strange phenomenon where time and space seemed to slow. Right away I'm interested in why, but where the book kind of takes a turn for me is that I was hoping for more magic fantasy and this went more science fiction. combined with political corruption. You might really like this, it was surely interesting and fresh for the genres. The way the author uses space and time bending really made this book stand out to me.

If this story focused on Arol more I'd have given it more stars. Arol was by far the most interesting character for me. However the author starts to bring in more and more characters and by the end I felt like this book was just a set-up book to build the worlds and introduce a bunch of characters that will be more relevant later. That's fine, but then this book started to fall flat for me. It just started off really strong and fell flat for me around the middle.

I'd still suggest it because if you love science fiction, you will probably really like this. I'd just wait for the other books to come out so that you can get through this and into what I'm hoping is the real meat of the series.

I think the idea of this book is great, I just can't get in to it unfortunately. It's not a book that fits me.

What an absolute delight this book was! I recently joined NetGalley and this was one of the first books I got from there. As soon as I read the summary, I was interested and I requested it without a second thought.

I had never even heard of the author or the book itself but I am glad that I took a chance on this because this book is such a fun and fast read. The author absolutely knows his world and the lore and he never overdoes it. The world-building (which is very important to me) was brilliantly done, too. The details are just enough that we don't mind reading about them and they are properly scattered throughout the book. The characters and the plot was pretty awesome too!

One of it's absolutely interesting plots was the time and space manipulation shown throughout the book. I have always been an absolute sucker for fantasy and a fantasy book involving time and space, wibbly wobbly timey wimey shenanigans? Sign me up! I loved the way the whole matter was handled in the book and I can't wait to read more about it in the future books.

It was very easy to get into the book and that's one of it's plus points, I think. It's not terribly long-winded at the start and it stays that way. There was so much happening across the book and sometimes it was a bit hard to catch up (but that's mostly because I wanted to read more about Arol, to be honest.). It's not a terribly long book and it kept me interested throughout.

I can't wait for the next books in the series.