Books 1-2 really had me going for this series. But the amount of nonsense in these two books is pretty rough.
Spoilers probably:
1st time we get to see Sylvie fight in dragon form is just her spouting a fireball that gets slapped away then she’s put in a cage. Disappointing.
Pretty much zero specific development of the MCs fire, water, earth, wind, lightning, or ice abilities. Slight gains on the wind side but really not much.
Last few chapters had an embarrassing amount of cool guy emphasis for the MC by using so many different perspectives. A whole chapter of the antagonist peeing their pants at how cool and scary the MC is.
Bad guys power level spiked wayyyyy too hard. Everyone on the continent combined is too weak to handle a single enemy currently. Establishing that successful mages are 7/14 on the power scale and that all the enemies are well beyond 15/14 on the power scale makes the entire thing ridiculous.
I might read 5 & 6 when they are put into a publishers pack. But christ these two were a kick in the nuts.