Let's start with the cover. Can anything get better than this? This is one of the best covers I have seen in the genre, and I have been reading this genre for like... all my life. I mean, since when I was allowed to read such books. After this, the writing is also really good. If I were to see the book in a store, I would have picked it up for the cover, then seen the writing, and then I would have just put the book on the counter and got it billed.