I have loved all the previous books in this series but this book was very difficult ixult to get through. I had to force myself to listen. The story dragged on and the characters didnt really progress with a few exceptions. SPOILER… the whole book can really be skipped if you just jump to the last chapter or two. This was a huge disappointment to me and i am really hoping that this book was just a rrset to allow competition again. Overall i also didnt enjoy the handling of “Death and Taxes”. It hurts me to say this. But you are better off just skippig the book and waiting for the introduction to the next to catch you up.