Overall:

-     This was not the most amazing book I’ve ever read.  I will say that it definitely was fast passed.  Which is very different for a first book in a fantasy series.  Usually fantasy books when they are the first in a series they take their time developing the world and characters.  I did like the twist ending of Dahey working against Finder.  I really did not see that coming.  I know they were like at odds with one another the whole time but I thought that was just cousins being cousins.  I also liked the fact that the original bad guy, the Starveling, turned out to not be the real enemy.  It seems a bit cliche but this book definitely needed a bit of cliche.