I got mine yesterday, and overall I love it too. The art is beautiful and evocative, and the game mechanics all seem quite sound.
I have two disappointments though. The first is that the "background" section lacks several regions and countries that PCs could come from, like Evereska and Rashemen. My other disappointment is that many of the Paragon Paths seem rather generic, and are primarily new paths, rather than 4e conversions of classic FR archetypes, like Red Wizards, incantatrixes, and Hathran.
(Although from the sound of the FRCG writeup of Rashemen, the Witches probably use the Primal power source, and there's likely a "witch" primal controller class in PHII).