This book continues the more annoying themes from the prior books and, from reading reviews for the next two books, begin a down turn on the story. Zach is dull and keeps just getting easy and unearned power. stat sheets are less prevalent that the last book, but still excessive. Reyun is getting better as a person, but reviews for the next two books say that he starts to take a backseat to Zach and side characters. I think last book was the beginning of Zach being the actual main character even though the first book made it seem like Reyun is supposed to be