A new review...

[anghara]

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!

Comments

[seawasp]

Indeed. THAT is the kind of thing you want to see your book doing, because that's ALSO what the reader will remember. The beginning was slow? Nah, that they won't care about if they remember the "I couldn't stop stealing time to read it".