The Waking Fire

Extremely solid first book to a series I can't wait to finish. Took me a bit to get into, but I'm glad I stuck it out. Don't give up on this book. There are 3 parts to the first book:

Part 1 is a lot of world and character building. The book focuses around 3 characters and it switches perspective pretty much every chapter. I didn't love that at first, but I got used to it and began to look forward to each character's progress in the story. There's also A LOT of world building

Part 2 is where the story gets going and where you really start to get attached to the characters

Part 3 is definitely the strongest and it's where you know the rest of the series is gonna be amazing

Highly recommend reading it and sticking with it if you find it slow at first. It's all necessary