While I really enjoyed this book as a whole, I think the first chunk of the book was a bit drier than the rest. I would say the first half of this book is a lot of scenes that show what feels like real-life politics, which is cool because it's very authentic but also wasn't what I wanted the focus to be on because I attempt to avoid politics as much as possible in real life. (Here I didn't actually mind since it aren't the same debates one has heard a million times and it gave us more worldbuilding.) In the second half it felt like there were more moments that felt closer to the characters I got to know over the course of the series and a lot of effective scenes.
In general, this book has a lot of the fancy writing techniques that are part of what makes the series special and although I feared I might have forgotten a lot of this complex world since reading part two, almost everything was memorable enough to stick with me. I'm really courious about where the final book will lead me.