These books are soooo boring. The premises are great, and the characters have great potential, but the execution of the story is too long and too detailed and way too boring. Not going to read any more of them. This was the third and I hoped they would get better, as some series do improve. If anything, this was worse. There were lots of parallel storylines that could have made a really interesting book, but it failed to optimize the potential. And that protagonist woman continues to just be an annoying drag on the whole series.