Blood King Tome Critique

[TK_EKS]

I'm looking for some feed back on project i did for design class.The assignment for for a weapon and i went with a magical tome . this was the second iteration .i like the lighting and the depth of the illustration, however i feel its lacking the polish i want.i work about 6 hours and a bit more on this through both iterations and it gets better every time. any suggestion to get a more readable form or anything at all i missed would be appreciated. i ill be resubmitting it after revisions . this will eventually be models and created in 3ds max.

Thanks for reading and your time.