Definitely a little bit of 'Middle Book Syndrome' in this one, at least for me.  However, it still has me wanting to know what happens to the characters and how these conflicts are going to turn out.  Wish I would have read it rather than listened to the audiobook, as the narrator caused some of the characters to be annoying to listen to.  Overall, love the world Ngan has created and I am biased into loving wlw fantasy!