So it took three books but I think I finally figured out March's eye color (is it silver?)

I read The Burning Kingdoms in less than 24 hours and I'm still trying to figure out why and how. It's not a short book (even though I had an ebook, which generally makes me read faster), and as much as I want to say it was action-packed...it wasn't? I mean, I read it in practically four sittings, but I still feel like I have another half of a book to read.
The thing I've realized about this series is that it somehow manages to be incredibly fast-paced while simultaneously doing very little plot-wise. I think part of the reason I read this so quickly is because I saw a review saying Edyon suffered so much, and I was excited to get to that part...only to never find it, so I guess I tricked myself into reading fast. Overall, I just felt like a lot of this book was "filler" in the sense that everyone is constantly preparing for a battle that never really arrives. The ending also felt very anticlimactic because the solution to everyone's problems came out of nowhere, and suddenly, the day was saved...
Maybe it's the characters that kept me intrigued, but when I say characters, I mean March and Edyon. Catherine and Ambrose are still very "meh" to me, although Ambrose finally realized he's in the friend zone and decided to stop being a child predator, so congrats to him for that character arc. I see a lot of people saying they love Tzsayn and Garatan, and I don't really care for either of them nor did I care for Byron because I knew better than to get emotionally attached. Last book, I really liked Tash, but she didn't get a ton of attention in this one, so I didn't care for her. March and Edyon were really the only ones I cared for, mostly because of the angst and also because they have ended up in prison in every single book.
The Burning Kingdoms is the fast-paced conclusion to The Smoke Thieves trilogy, and it definitely closes the series in a way that answers most of the questions.
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3.75/5