I was SO hopeful about this book when Arachne has a sit down with Mage Verus to say, dude, people are after you not because of this specific thing you did to someone else but because they re worried you could become a strong player on the scene FINALLY Someone stops listening to all the whining and tells him to make a choice And then for the rest of the book, he carefully avoids making any meaningful choices How can you have seven books and do so little to advance the main character s developmen [...]