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I might be the only who feels this way, but it seems as if the story is progressing rather quickly?
I mean, I'm only sixty pages in and Alina's gone from being a common surveyor to possibly the most valuable Grisha in Ravka. Not only that, I didn't get much of a chance to grow attached to Mal or the more minor characters before Alina was carted away with the Darkling's cohort.
More world-building would've been nice.