[2.4] In my opinion this is undoubtedly the worst addition of the currently existing (and supposedly final) Simon Snow books. There's little to no expansion of the world, we learn nothing new about the magical world of our characters other than the fact that goats are important to the school and there are magical surgeons I guess? So much that was built up in the previous two books was just pushed to the side and it seemingly just doesn't exist. The villain, if they can even be called that, is boring and weak (both from a magical perspective and fleshed out character perspective). Additionally, we're three books deep now and I STILL don't buy into Snow and Baz's relationship? It's so one-sided and they're so clearly two entirely different people with opposing lives; please make it end, it's not destined to be!