This book was definitely a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. It's written as though it was a group going through different quests instead of having one coherent storyline throughout. I wasn't a fan of any of the characters, really, and the main character is the only one who really has a lot of thought put into him and his backstory, it seems. Other characters have backstories, of course, but there's so little focus on them that it seems completely irrelevant to the plot at all, and there's really not much of a plot since everything is a bunch of quests stitched together.
The main character's story is interesting though! And I really enjoyed the halfling village in the forest! I really wish there was more of it tied into the story as a whole with all of the ideas that seemed to be revolving around the village.
Accents are also written out in this story, which I'm not a personal fan of.
I'd also like to say that there is a significantly more amount of time focused on Rose's funeral than any time of her spent actually participating in the book, which is really confusing.
The story also ends pretty abruptly and then there's a timeskip. You can tell Rew had taken the story entirely into his hands at this point because it becomes A LOT more interesting and there's no filler within it. The ending, however, does drag on.
And I was surprised that Keegan died! I really wasn't expecting it, but it was a nice twist for me to come across