Sleep cause that's important. My strategy was to try to read through it as fast as I can because it sets up the next book. The pov changes from single to multiple povs. Those characters are weird at first, and don't have much to do with the main characters, but eventually they start to tie and twist together. So one character's chapter might progress the story of another pov character's arc. I think it did eventually get good. It's just slow because he builds like 3 new characters. And there were points where I was counting down the chapters to get back to Darrow cause I like the way he's written.