The further into the story you go the worst it gets ... At first it was acceptable and you were waiting for the story to pick up. Then the story picks up its pace and takes a nose dive. The author try's to make the world and reactions of the nobles "realistic" and follow a certain "Noble Creed" but then contradict this in their actual actions. Then says this is normal to do things in the dark for them but he cant because reasons? We waited for a battle to happen for 20 plus chapter but all that happened was nonsense and character point of views and intrigue that makes no sense or don't matter. The battles in this novel are tons of build up chapters. Then the battle is 1 chapter long and all about morale and troop quality. Which wouldn't be so bad if the build up chapters didn't already talk about this so the battle chapter is basically a summary of what we know then the final result. Then the next few chapters are about chasing the routers and clean up and maybe upgrades. Then 10 plus chapters on reactions. Honestly this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are far worse things in this book. Its just Bad
