Disappointingly riddled with errors, but most unforgivingly there's a point early on in when the protagonist and his fellow apprentices go from frosty to monologuing their lifes' stories in the span of a second. That sort of emotional negation -- and the tendency to long-winded infodump in the face of characters whose motivations don't align with sitting still for an unanticipated story hour -- is the sort of jarring thing that yanks me right out. DNF.