Everything about this story is so dense and complicated - I reached the final page and still didn’t have any kind of grasp on the political/religious/magic system. The classic book 1 fantasy trope of Protagonist Doesn’t Know Stuff was even more frustrating because of this, the I’ll-tell-you-laters just kept piling up and kept me from rooting for any of the characters. 

I picked this up because the full story is supposed to be exciting and wonderful etc, but book 2 is 600+ pages and book 3 is almost 800 pages and I don’t think I have it in me to get through all of that, sadly.