In this book we encounter a new race and world and their customs are so alien and rooted in evil it is extremely interesting. This is about the only interesting part of the book. 

There are 3 ish timelines/povs going on: traveling to this alien world, searching for an evil magician on a different world, and 3 boys doing whatever on their home world.

Personally, the story of the 3 boys doing whatever felt super random and irrelevant. And the search for the evil magician was like 3 chapters in total… I just don’t really enjoy these books but i’m reading them for a friend.