While I quite liked the first story arch, the author struggles to introduce this new arch after having cut so much away at the end of the last book. There is too much contemplation of the specific morality of this world and a lot of pondering on how to classify the actions of evil and little plot progression. In fairness, I could not make it past the halfway mark, but I also couldn’t take the slog any longer. I may come back and try it again in the future.