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I struggled to get into the story. It felt like plot and character development was sacrificed in favor of providing tons of background and descriptions that weren't very useful or relevant. I felt too stuck in the MC's head. For example, she goes and buys shoes and instead of just saying she bought these sparkly shoes, there's a rundown of all the shoe choices and her decision based on X, Y, and Z. It literally added nothing to the story or her as a character, and there is a lot of that in the book. The characters are pretty lightly drawn and there isn't much effort to make them more complex. The plot was too simple, and I found the MC to be not the brightest and also boring. It felt like she had no personality. And seriously, who sees an anti magic device being put up by military types who she overhears talking about multiple locations and gps and thinks "Huh, wonder what that could be for? Let me hold this gun on this guy who was doing it but bit incapacitate him." rather than "Probably should try to pull that thing down and prevent this guy from leaving." As a result, the entire plot was something that felt like it could have easily been avoided if she'd scraped together some brain cells. She also seems to have a savior complex which really comes across as a need to feel special and important rather than actually caring. The book finally gets interesting in the epilogue. Not sure I will read the next installment, but it seems to have more potential than book 1.