I have never skipped so much pointless BS in my life I would guess you could cut out 15 hours of this book with next to nothing lost. Also the power keep is real bad just a book ago the level the current characters are at would be considered insanely rare and next to untouchable but suddenly random assassins can nearly kill them and we keep running into immortals everywhere its stupid and frustrating. Oh and the less time spent on Zack and his crazy gf the better screw the both of them.