So predictable it hurts. 2. Endless forced and implausable situations. 3. Too YA. The draig scene was so childish a 12 yo should have written it less cringy. 4. Bored me to death. Too dragged on. 5. No more character development, everybody behaves exactly as needed to further the plot. 6. Actually, no character feels alive any more, just pure instrument to push the story into preset pathways. 7. Everybody is still running around, running away, running all over the place and then running some more. The third book in a row, so it's way too much of that. 8. No more real plot, just endless battling, not even well described. // Overall a big disappointment and by far the weakest in the series. Perhaps it should have been a trilogy.