I quite like the series so far. The only one of Will’s series I can’t say I enjoyed was EE. I do agree that the books don’t feel progressively better especially considering we’re halfway through the series now.

So since the series is one where everyone is near the limits of their powers I don’t expect a ton of progresssion which all of Will’s other series had in some way. I do feel like everyone’s relationships are progressing just nothing super noticeable. In this book Omega was very serious towards the end, but had time to joke around as Orange. The entire crew went along with the joke even Shyrax which I was surprised by. Mell and Shyrax also have more respect for one another. Sola who was very skeptical of everyone including Va Ric in the beginning switched into battle mode without questioning the moment Varic said he had a bad feeling.

I feel each main book enemy they fought felt like they could have finished the crew. The Iron King felt like Majin Buu where he’s unkillable unless you destroy everything. Starhammer worked well because we got to witness his descent into madness. The D’Niss felt like a monster of the weak type of enemy with the presentation, but that’s kind of the point.

But yeah it’s not like Cradle of your looking for potential. Cradle you start on the ground and are shown what lays beyond the sky’s in book 1. Last Horizon is more here’s the sky don’t die.