While Raafe and Red's plot felt like filler just there to parallel the first book and the foreshadowing of the ending with Kayu was too obvious, I enjoyed Neve's adventures in the Shadowlands and growing relationship with Solmir. The various gods they encounter - especially the desolate spidery Seamstress and the eerie Leviathan - were fascinating, even if I didn't fully understand how the divinity/magic system worked. And I appreciated the ending, which felt realistic even if not fully happily ever after (except for Arik maybe who got to live and forget all this drama lol)