It's been quite some time since I've read any pure high fantasy. Truth be told, a lot of it seems formulaic, repetitive, and predictable-- Michael Moorcock would be one notable exception, and of course Gene Wolfe, if you can categorize Wolfe at all-- and I'd stuck with magical/ mythical realism such...
I did hover between giving the book 3 and 4 stars, because I really did like it... but, the truth it a very large part of the book bored me. I think it was just too long...