Get subscribed to the Storyphoria podcast where you can hear my full thoughts, SPOILER FREE, on this and many others! Or subscribe to the newsletter if you prefer to read them! https://solo.to/storyphoria With the wyrmlings all but crowned the victors, this book jumps POV over to Borenson and family on the other side of the world. Giving us a look at what they were up to as the events of the previous 3 books unfolded on the other side of the world. In keeping with the second half of this series I bet you can guess what's coming... things aren't going so great. Every victory feels like a defeat and sadly I can only guess that Farland was leading us down deeper and deeper into despair in order to deliver a whopper of a grand finale in book nine. Sadly, we may never see that, which makes the second half of this series feel not only incomplete, but incredibly one sided or one note in tone as hopeless despair feels like the only focus here. Farland has created a wonderfully epic world in the Runelords Saga, though as it sits I can only recommend reading the first 4 books in the series and letting that be your ending. It's much more satisfying than the final 4 books in this series have been - not that I hated them, but they just didn't click for me.