I love the world building of the story. I love the setting and even the characters despite them being particularly irritating. This could make an amazing series, All signs lead to their being so much more to tell about the world and the characters. it quite literally leaves off as if they should be a sequel, and maybe we will wait for that. I mean, it is called a Theonite war story as if there were more. But I have searched and I haven’t seen any others.
it was certainly not what I expected though. sometimes that’s good, sometimes not so much. In this case, this feels like when you go to a restaurant with incredible reviews that serves your favorite food, only to experience that the food was not as great as you expected and the portions too small.