I heard some rough reviews before giving it a shot so I was a little apprehensive going in, but I ended up enjoying it.
There are some issues - the world building is kind of shallow and a lot of the world building we got was a little info dumpy. I know parts of Lore's past were kept intentionally vague for a while but even her life / the culture of living outside the citadel was boiled down to drug running and illegal fighting rings. 
The magic is still a little confusing to the point that there were instances where I knew the characters realized something but I was struggling to see what their conclusions were.
Also, Lore has to be the worst spy I've ever heard of. I understand that being under the thumb of the actual King / Fantasy Pope is a little more nerve wracking than her normal spy work, but

apparently even the guy she was spying on before that knew what she was doing.

The character arcs were another minor issue for me.

They seemed to stay relatively flat until the end. Gabe was always being pushed out of his comfort zone, so his betrayal was of no surprise, but he did come out of nowhere at the end to switch sides back and fight Anton. Bastian's was interesting although less severe. He was always looking to crack especially when it came to his father and uncle. Lore's just stayed flat the entire time. And tbh her at the end saying she was selfish was honestly just not true. The story started with her risking capture to save a fellow crew member. So idk where that came from

That being said, once I was about 40% in things really started picking up. I'm really curious about the character arcs for Bastian and Gabe alongside Lore.