Friends and acquaintances alike have been on at me to read this for months, and I'm bound to say I'm glad they pushed. It's a true masterpiece, for although it does follow a time-warn path of young people growing up and saving the world, the concepts are sufficiently fresh and the writing so engaging that you forget the trope and simply bask in the words. Each of the major characters have their own flaws and these add to their Humanity greatly and I'll be certain to follow this author very carefully indeed.