This book dealt more with lore about the world and there were less cool character development scenes. At least it felt that way to me. And I discovered that I want the lore to be relevant to the characters. And in this book, it only feels relevant to the god characters, but those are not my favourite ones. There's also a big battle in the middle where my eyes glazed over until I got to interesting bits again. And again it ends on a cliffhanger, as this is only the middle part of a story that's split up in 3 books.