edit: I slept on it and I feel even worse about it, so I changed my rating.

This was almost perfect, except that I feel kinda baited with the whole Iana thing. You spend two and a half books setting it up, and then go "haha no"?

If it truly didn't mean to go anywhere, then they could have clarified that sooner.

Except for that, and my mixed feelings about the ending, it had the things I like about the series, and more. Thara gets to solve cases both big and small, deal with both dragons and bureaucracy, and we also had some great scenes with Csevet and Maia, whom I missed dearly.