This book was a HUGE disappointment. Disjointed writing, dropped plot lines, continuity errors. She states her writing is to write bits and then work them together, this was VERY apparent as things seemed cobbled together. She supposedly has 2 separate editors! I'd fire them both,this was a very sloppy book. I don't know why it took 7 years to research because anything here could be Wikipedia'd. Way too many words to say not much. It felt like a long catch up letter on the family from grandma.
To have left this as a cliffhanger is a cheap move. I stopped reading when I found out. If I live long enough to see her next book come out, I might revisit dragging it back out to read.
I'm a huge fan who's read the entire series 5 times now! This book could have been a third it's size for what it imparted and even that might have been to big.