I'm not feeling this book. It's moving way too slow and there are too many characters. I'm trying to like it, but I can put it down for weeks at a time and not think about it. So that's making it a meh book for me.

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For all these characters, all this build up (three books worth), and all these dueling plot lines, the ending was very anticlimactic. Too often I saw characters that could be combined or eliminated. The end felt like whole chapters were lost to make the space, rather than cut back on prose and other useless wordiness earlier in the book.

Made worse, there were very little hints on the direction of the story throughout. It was a disconnected mess. Characters would appear and you'd have no clue why. In one case, the character really didn't have much reason to be.

The author even tried to create a Yoda-esk teacher character -- failed miserably.

Not impressed. Not part of my recommended reading list. ( )