I love love loved the first half of this book. Great world building, great characters. There were some interesting gender and race dynamics that were cool to see. And I loved the build up of the three stories. But she kind of lost me somewhere in the middle. All three stories just got less interesting to me about halfway through, which is strange because that's where the "action" of the book started picking up. Don't get me wrong, I still ended up liking the book. But it just didn't blow me away. I will check out the other books in the series.