I think the plot points that were emphasized in this book were not the ones I wanted to read. A lot of the story felt unnecessarily prolonged. It's fine for an author to tell a story that they want to tell but that doesn't mean the reader has to enjoy it. There were about 10-15 chapters of this book that were like YES and the other 100 or so were more like yeah okay (i know this is not my best description of a book but its hard to articulate my gripes without spoiling things). Overall I did not love Zafira’s character arc in this book, over the whole series her general arc is solid. For 70% of this book, I was not enjoying Zafira’s story which sucks as I really had a great time with her in book one. I am a character reader over a plot reader so I really think a lot more about all of our main characters' personalities and tendencies could be explored.