I really liked almost every concept in this book: downtrodden slave caste with a secret rebellion, a child raised by the colonizers struggles to find her place; warrior/princess romance with respect paid to power imbalance, hidden magic users wielding secret powers… but the characterization was flat, the villains were paper cutouts, the characters made weird and stupid unforced errors, the plot dragged and rushed by turns, and at the end I feel like nothing got resolved and more messes were made. I get that it’s the first in a series, but with this kind of pacing and development, I’m not in a hurry to see where it goes.