It's a pretty good story, it's more character driven than plot driven, even though there is a ton of plot points. The characters are what make it worth a look. The world itself is unintentionally ridiculous. There is like no sense of distances and speeds, and powers, everyone can destroy entiree cities and countries, pretty early on. The author has no sense of scale one or two instances during a battle would circumnavigate the earth but they seem to be fighting within a forest on earth. He uses hundreds of thousands of feet as a scale a lot, just say 20 miles. The biggest issue I have is he makes no effort ro research science while implementing his fantasy pseudo science. For example he uses gravity a lot in this novel, like every battle, every challenge, but he never took 3 seconds to google how gravity works, to work it in the story. It's always some force pushing down on the character that he has to fight and lift up over his head. He uses his body to protect others and important objects from the force of gravity pushing down on them from above. It's weird and immersion breaking. There are a lot of other examples where he is really weird about his "science" and I get it it's fantasy but he has like a couple of tools in his box they are based on some easily solved misunderstandings and he uses them a lot.