This book and the preceding ones are going to be rolled into one review. Firstly this book was quite the let down, while it does move the story along , it only does so slightly. There are new enemies that get fleshed out more which was about the highlight of this book. The interesting chars from the previous books barely make any appearance. Rather the reader is forced to deal with bucket loads of drama. This seems to be drawing on the style of game of thrones and other similiar books but the execution just doesn't come through.

Sadly after this first half of the second book it has been down hill all the way for the series for the exact same points mentioned previously. The second book seems like it was really badly edited so the pacing is way off and the tone changes vastly from the first book.

Personally if I had known this I would have just read the first book and left it at that , there would have been that itch know more of what happens to the other characters but I think an abridged book which spans all that could have easily summarized all that for me without the pointless drama.

The narrator in the the first 3 books was average but quite bad in the last book , there is a graphic audio version of these books which is supposedly way better, if given the option make sure you listen to that version.