By far, my least favourite book of the Sun Eater series. This book should not have been 500+ pages. The material covered here does not warrant close to that. Kingdoms of Death, which suffered pacing issues, should have been condensed and the two should have been made one, as was planned before. 

Also, with each book I read of this series, its main flaw is rearing its head out even more. With this series being an autobiography where we already know everything that happened before it happens, has affected my interest in this series.