The book has an interesting premise, but nevertheless, this is a 300 page introduction, and it fails at making me care enough to try slodge through the rest of the series.
Very little happens in this book - there are some isolated events that don't actually do anything for the plot, and there is a very feeble arc, but what little resolution there is is far from satisfying, and what little promise there is for the next instalments just isn't terribly exciting for me.