The train has slowed down ever so slightly 👀
It was still amazing! But for the first 30 - 40% of the book it was pretty uneventful and meh.

It felt like the first half of this book was actually just DLC story extra from the previous book, and the other half of the book felt like a actual main book. 

So apart from the weird pacing and uneventfulness, the rest was as epic as usual.

The point of this book was to progress Lindon as a character and his power, reveal more of Suriel and the Abidan's story, and delving more into the Dreadgod's powers and past.

But now for the Abidan.
What's their reason for being created?
They're militarised, organised, and constantly recruiting. The whole purpose of Cradle is for people to rise high enough to ascend and join the Abidan army.

Heres my question though, why? 

The Mad King and the other Executives that betrayed the Abidan, before the Executives were created, the Abidan all followed the Way and were bound by rules and fate and thus couldn't turn on each other. So then who was their enemy? Nobody? So then they decided to make an Executive who didn't have to follow the rules and could interfere and change Fate. It betrayed them. They made another Executive, it betrayed them. And they kept creating more and more Executives and they kept and kept betraying them. Seems to me, they should have stopped making executives, right? Without the Executives, there was no enemy. So why were they this big galactic army before the Executives were even created??? Who or what was out in space that could pose a threat to them?

Edit:
I have just learned that the Cradle series is, in fact, part of a larger universe called the Williverse, and that there are 3 other series connected to Cradle and all feature the Abidan. So, I presume if I had started Will Wight by reading Traveler's Gate Book 1, I would have a clearer picture of the origins and purpose of the Abidan.