This book is a decent rebound from the fourth book.
The narration seemed to actually get a bit worse for some reason. The male voices were all pretty similar, while not being a normal voice. They were all gruff like the spy master of previous books.
The story itself was better than book four, but not as good as the first three. There’s more of the pointless conflict around sexuality that the fourth book had, but much less of it. It doesn’t fit the story at all and completely ruins the flow. It seems clear that it was thrown in either as poorly made propaganda to support the author’s political/world views, or as pathetic pandering to sell books. Any author who can make a violent, abusive sexual relationship between a hermaphrodite fiend and masochistic succubus seem normal could do a much better job with something as simple as a lesbian relationship.
The overall comedy is still lacking compared to the first three books. In return there’s a little more plot, but not much. A lot of time is wasted trying to build up the story, but never delivering too much. Pointless interactions that merely fill time, never adding any entertainment or developing the characters. Meanwhile Boxxy’s new (potential) allies and the Goddess Teresa herself get far less time than they should.