The God Wars trilogy (of which this is the middle volume) is a fairly standard fantasy quest story. But the writing's reasonably well done, the story moves along, and the characters are interesting. Wells' world-building isn't as thorough or as good as some, but that doesn't seem to drag the book down for me. All-in-all, this made a nice gym book for me - it kept me entertained while spending time on a treadmill. ( )