over the three books the focus felt like it drifted a lot from scheming and setting up and sitting through plots to just having a bunch of fights. this book is the middle road where the fight scenes all had plot heavy dialogue on them but it felt like everything else was reduced to a few sentences between fights to hand wave and wrap things up. it’s a good book with a great premise but I would have loved more actual setting things up and following through instead of conquering a kingdom in. a week cause of 4 back to back major battles with “the maid can take care of all those incredibly interesting non fight things. now our next enemy…”