As much as I love this series, I feel like this book is treading water. We are introduced to characters with long arcs that never impact the main plot.

Others are utilized to set up a trap that doesn't resolve in this book and Jane's extended quest is not much farther along than it was by the end of the previous book.

I am still locked in on the series, but here's hoping book 4 explodes out of the starting blocks to make up for the stumbles in this book.