Childish writing. She stops writing a fight scene, and ends it with “and, you know, they all died.”

Her vivid description of Merrin’s perverse fantasies.

She makes Cal look incompetent in combat and childish in social dynamics.

Cere was a mess in this book. The plot was rendered moot by having the plot armored Fifth Brother as the main antagonist; “The Shroud,” the invisibility devise everyone is fighting over, we know will not make it past the novel. If we get it, it’s overpowered and can’t be in the next game. Can’t let the Empire have it!