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This novel can be summed up in exactly one word: filler. It’s unnecessary and honestly not worth the time it took me to read it. I feel confident you could read the first 100 pages, skip to the end and read the last 75 pages, and then be fully prepared to read book 6, if you feel so inclined.

Nothing of note really happens. Truly. It’s 600 pages of a bunch of random, ad-hoc stories that fill the space in the time between the two characters being separated. Do they even end up back together by the end of the novel? Nope. They sure don’t. Yes, 600 pages of our 2 main characters separated, going on random ad-hoc side quests, and never reuniting until, wait for it, the next book.

We also get a bunch of random chapters with other characters who I personally do not care about, did not want to read about, and now dislike more than I did before. Don’t worry, Malina does have sex with the assassin during a major battle though, because that was necessary. She could’ve gotten her own little novella and that would’ve worked out a lot better.

What happens at the end (I won’t spoil it for you), is, in my opinion, the laziest trope an author can employ. It ruined the reunion I was so looking forward to and now am never going to get. I’m so mad that this is where we have ended up that I’m 90% certain I won’t even read book 6.

I’m mad the series was extended another book when it very much did not have to be, I’m mad that I read 600 page of nothing, I’m mad that all the “reveals� was shit we already knew or was so incredibly obvious I can’t classify it as a reveal, and I’m mad that we now have a dumb ending with a dumb trope to start the next book that I won’t be reading.