The way I'll relate my experience is this: it's like I was reading a "choose your own adventure" book and the adventure that was chosen was the least involved of all the stories I may have been able to experience. I didn't get any sort of anything because the characters I followed weren't primary characters in the adventure -- nor did they speak of the other characters we weren't seeing while spending time with the ones we were with. Every time I got passed along to new character, the only thing mentioned/told to us was, "the queen is evil. Unreal City is not what it seems. Be careful with whom you trust." When we did finally meet who I would call a "primary character," it was in the last 5 minutes and nothing was explained about who she was...
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Look--it just doesn't work. It COULD work. But it doesn't. No way. No how.
It's ambitious, like just about everyone says. But that's ALL it had goin for it, as fars as I'm concerned. We were told to look for one person--but that never came up, so who cares? Some people were given info, but that never comes up or comes relevant, so who cares? The end seems determined to be the same no matter what, so nothing we do matters, so... you can guess the rest.
Yep. That's my reaction to the whole damn thing. I wanted to care.
But I didn't.
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