That took me SO long to read because honestly it was so confounding that I did not look forward to picking this up. To be fair, I did not do a reread because a)i just read iron flame in June and b) i have a full time job and do not have time for that, but I think if your books are so confusing you have to reread in order to know who any of your 100 characters are and their dragon’s names and their signets and their regions it’s too much. There were so many random characters who i still don’t know who they are (Llewellyn? Betwyn?) The middle introduced so many different foreign governments and customs that I couldn’t keep up. The last 100 pages were literally like…. what???? I had NO idea what was going on and honestly, am i stupid, what was the twist at the end? Like legitimately what happened, I don’t know. Ridoc saved the day as best character, second to Broccoli the cat who we do not know whether he lived or died because there was no follow through. Overall, I can’t lie, I am disappointed. I did not enjoy this read, and after so much hype and a midnight release party and all that I expected this to rock my world and it just didn’t. Booooo i hate that i feel this way!!!!!