This felt...rushed. Most individual conflicts are solved within pages so there's not too much tension build up throughout the piece. We don't really get much payoff to all the world-building intrigue beyond Amelia going "You guys need to respect women!" And somehow most everyone acquiesces without much fanfare. If any of the books in this series needed to be 600+ pages, it's this one, and we just didn't get that. It looks like the author had planned to expand on this series, but those followups have yet to be published.