I really love d this series, and I m afraid that I absolutely hated the ending of this one so much so that it completely destroyed my enjoyment of the book as a whole From the point that Verus went on the run, I found the plotting lazy and basically meaningless We went here, then they nearly caught us then we went there, then they nearly caught us we went shopping, then they nearly caught us It was fundamentally just filling space until the final confrontation which was an insult to the author s [...]