A quick read, which in the end turned out to be nothing like what I had expected from the first few chapters. I liked it well enough and was interested in seeing it to its completion, but despite the cliffhanger'ish epilogue I feel no real compulsion to read the sequel. I wavered a long time between 2.5 and 3, but ended up with 3 stars because it did manage to throw some twists and turns my way that I hadn't expected. It wasn't bad... just average.