I enjoy the series but I also feel there’s a lot of parts that are completely useless. I understand wanting to expand the story but this makes it difficult to get through jumping to side stories or “interludes”. I think some of the side stories would be better placed in side novels as an optional choice instead of taking away time from the main characters. It feels unnecessary to give the audience back story on characters out of nowhere when not even the main character gets this information in the story itself. I’ll continue the series since I find it enjoyable, but at times extremely frustrating.