Really enjoyed. Possibly awesome. Huge, intricately sweeping adventure fantasy.
Still a bit annoyed at the silly errors that the copy-editing team lets slip (might be acceptable for a self-published author, or even a small publisher with a limited team, but there are meant to be benefits to going with the big players, right?).
Anyway, looking forward to getting on to Book 3, because I enjoyed Imriel's trilogy, so I'm looking forward to reading his backstory.

Probably the one thing that keeps me from adding that fifth star is that Carey writes in this first-person telling a story, a history, style, which gives the overall impression of distance. There is a distance in time, which takes some of the immediacy out of the events. In fact, in some cases, an upcoming event is summarised with a single statement before we see it unfold. What can I say? I'm a huge fan of seeing through a character's eyes and hearing via a character's ears. I love being as surprised as they are. But, of course, this distance lends itself to opportunities in which the main POV character can hatch a plan and not share it with the reader until it unfolds... Again, I'm not a big fan of that, but that's just my preference. Even with this more distant style, I enjoy the characters very much.