I read this book because I was already two books into the trilogy and really had to find out what happened. And there is a really good and exciting plot buried under all the unnecessary pages. Had this book been 400 or even 500 pages long, it would have been fine. But there was so much extra verbiage and whining, especially, on the part of the main character that there were moments (the entire last two thirds of the book, for example), when I was just shouting at the book to get on with it.
But at least finishing the series was satisfying.