This is an excellent series but unfortunately the author has decided that what got us addicted to the series is not the direction the books are going. please give me a book with not 15 short stories and just as many interludes on people that I have no bond to. The first book in the series has respond to two characters and these two characters bond to a couple other characters that’s what we fell in love with. to start it off with a couple more characters which was fine as long as you give me more chapters on the two characters the start of the series. If I want to be honest I would rather have a series just on Ryun’s challenges and his sects growth. Again wonderful series just confused on the direction the books are heading towards.