I just think it was kind of messy. It was kind of a mess and I feel like it really wasted a lot of the potential of earlier books and it threw away interesting character development that already had been very slow were the first two books, but there was potential there and then it just totally trashed it.
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I did still enjoy aspects of it, but this felt like a slog for at least 70% of it and just the pacing and the structure was pretty rough.
It was entertaining enough, but definitely had problems, especially structurally and with the pacing, I would say, but definitely an interesting and engaging and imaginative story.
And part of the reason why I didn't read 9inth House when it first came out is that I had read Six of Crows by Lee Bugo and it just didn't quite click for me.



