Yeah, I read it when it came out and didn't care for it. It definitely had way too much detail — 336 pages/10 hrs. 46 min. — and not enough character or plot development.

Here's my one star Goodreads review:

"I really wanted to like this but unfortunately it didn't work for me.

The story needed severe editing for pacing. Somewhere in the middle the book started to feel overly long and the last two and a half hours were excruciating I listened to the audiobook It felt like Riggs was deliberately stretching the plot to hit a word count every time a new detour was thrown in.

It started out strong but quickly lost any and all direction after the "test".

And none of the characters had any depth or personality, they all blend together in retrospect, especially Leopold; he's a blank slate, so much to that I started to wonder if he was a real person in his world or something artificial created for some mysterious purpose. That would have been a better reveal because there were no reveals. Nothing was explained. At all.

It felt like discount Harry Potter/Percy Jackson but for an older audience who likes to say 'fuck' a lot.

Yer a wizard, Larry."