You might say,
half-liked But I'll take it for this quote alone:
...once you get to the halfway mark of Gift of the Unmage the story picks up quite a bit; we learn why Thea hasn’t been able to do magic and the world starts to get pretty amazing. At this point I couldn’t put the book down. I was literally stealing any time I could (even at work! lol) to find out what happens.
Any time I get THAT reaction, for anything I've written, I'm content...