I'm completely torn over this book. I couldn't put it down and whizzed through it in a few days, yet I feel that something was missing. With each new chapter I was waiting for something big to happen; I was left a little underwhelmed by the end. The influence of the Dark Lady and the relevance of the black pages didn't really come together for me until too late on the book. It wasn't the wow I had hoped for from Akala