I should start out by saying that this is not my chosen genre and my mind tends to wander when I read something out of my interests. 

That stated, I have to say that I was able to fully visualize the characters and the world as they experienced it. Often times when I read, I tend to skip around as I try to find the point the author is guiding me toward. Guiding of course being the operative word. Some writing feels like you are on a tour of a famous old house, with someone pointing out the bathroom where persons of influence and importance of the era dropped the kids off at the pool.

That was not the case here. The writing just happened; descriptions lent well to the imagination without clubbing you to brain death and the dialogue flowed throughout in a very organic way. It gave me the sense of reading classic works of fiction.

Overall I really liked it, maybe put a dragon or a sword fight in there someplace to help a fantasy reader out.