Midway between Great astral being and a God, but extremely limited and pretty useless now. I can only hope that the next book pushes the plot a little bit more. So this book isn't a complete wash by any means, but I had to think for a bit whether it was 3 or 4 stars. While it can devolve into sympathy porn at times, these are still the scenes that the series is built upon and what keeps me coming back. The series's strongest point to me is the dialogue scenes with characters interacting. I mean, we're here at Book 8, which is a lot more than most series can say. Which is a shame because the plot is interesting and good. This book is 765 pages, but probably less than 300 of it is actual dialogue and events happening. Before getting to the actual scene of the story, we often have to skim through all of the thoughts, decisions, and experiences that led the characters to the scene, which is mind-numbingly boring for me and nearly always unnecessary. It reminds me of academic papers where the authors have to explain their methodology before getting to the actual data. The author has a bad habit of summarizing things too much. While I'm somewhat impressed by the author's ability to come up with new plot points for this series, I'm less than impressed by the transitions between story arcs. Another transition/setup book with all of the shortcomings that usually entails for the series.
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