More than anything this book feels like the second half of the first. I can see why it was written as two, but I still think anybody reading these should commit to reading both, back-to-back. Given that they're just okay, that might be a bit much to ask.

I picked these up because I got hold of some later books in adjacent, follow-on series that looked kinda fun. Then I saw 50 books. I thought, well, they must be readable. And they are. They're readable. They're fun. They're just...there's something missing and I'm not sure what it is.