This series has thoroughly tainted my willingness to try unfinished works or personally untested authors. I've had *Red Sister* on my TBR for a while, so when *The Book That Wouldn't Burn* came out, I thought I'd give it a go. It was good. Unfortunately, after years of waiting for these sequels, I'm angry at myself for reading them on release. Never again will I blindly pick up a new release that's part of a series. Continuity and endings matter to me. The second book was inarguably a step down from the first, but only a quarter of the way through this one, and I'm dying of boredom and apathy. What happened? Beyond calling this series the Library Trilogy and failing to spend time with books at all? The marketing on this was such a huge misrepresentation that I feel cheated on multiple fronts. I also feel the need to add a warning to my review of the first book and to remove any Mark Lawrence from my TBR. He can't be trusted.