The characters are like just shown so well. Like for instance i have never had such a emotional attachment to a book character before. I am do emotionally attached to Sophie its unbelievable and that's becuase when your reading the book it feels like your actually talking to these people and like for instance Fitz was portraid excellently hes supost to be the guy everyone has a crush on to the point reading the book i ended up having a crush on Fitz it sounds dumb but seriously i got a crush on a book character it was done so well. I definitely recommend to ages 10-13 for the first two books atleast. Just becuase when i tried reading them when i was 8 i just didn't put in as much appreciation to how many little details they added just to make you feel a specific way about certain characters or something like that it is a good book if you like fantasy fiction. Really recommend