I like the story and the setting, but it has a lot of problems. The doom points are an interesting idea, but are really failing at this point. The problem with having an overpowered character is that you need a good reason for bad things to happen. You need an even better reason when you then also give that character a spell to come up with good plans. There wasn't a good reason. He could've lived. The writer also writes things they think are epic without considering how realistic something would be. This turns epic scenes into terrible scenes if you think about what is supposedly happening. I almost couldn't finish the book, but I did and I hope that the next one will be better.