I'm still no wiser than I was after the last book. I had hoped that now the 3 kingdoms were united that all hell would break out in this book, but this was more like the Tokyo drift in the Fast and Furious series. Connected but completely different.
Now I have to wait until next year to get an idea of where this is all heading, and that makes it 5 books of going somewhere, and for the last 3 books I have had this feeling a kid has when he goes on summer vacation by car with his parents. Are we there yet?