Entertaining
but little depth or character development.
People frequently manifest petty attitudes, foolish behavior and mean-spirited communication. When these people are the elite of a society, college students, and magic professors, however, and when this behavior is so consistent, the story quickly goes beyond the boundary of believability.
There's enough easy-minded action to make reading relatively painless but Fire in the Mist falls well below the normally high caliber of PK Dick Award winning books.