I enjoyed this book. It started off with some action and getting acquainted with the Manhattan borough avatar. It felt a bit slow in the middle, understandable since there are 4 other boroughs that we need to get to know. I enjoyed the ending. Staten Island's avatar is pretty fundamentally incompatible with the other avatars, and Jemisin has a creative and unexpected solution to this problem. The Woman in White is a great antagonist - sneaky, otherworldly, with complex motivations.