One thing I really like about it (if people reading this post have read the books that are out so far, please don't spoil anything) is that you never really know who's going to "win" in the end. You can't really get too attached to the characters because you have no clue who's actually going to survive. It's not really a story where there's this one "good guy" who you pretty much know is going conquer all evil. It's more "realistic" than that (though of course it's not realistic at all since it's fictional). Does that make sense?