Once Fitz and the Fool finally really get out of Buckeep and on the journey the reader is waiting for this was more of a four star book for me, but that doesn't happen until the last 10-15% of the story. Buckeep castle is a story-sucking black hole. Everytime Fitz ends up there it takes him forever to get out and start doing things again. He had a false start or two in this one. Then it felt like quite a lot happened at the end. 
 I would talk about Chade, but I'll just end up ranting. Robin could have taken all the references to rape and halved them I think there would have still been too many. Ugh. I was happy to see Nettle realizing she had judged Fitz unfairly for a long time and see her treat him differently now. I was appalled and what the dragons have allowed to happen to the Elderling children ... although I was lmao at the Fool when Fitz was trying to help them and he was practically like "This is not safe for you! STOP! Screw these people, you are all I care about!" ...maybe he is part dragon. ;-P 
 Well, I'm all caught up. We'll see how this all wraps up next month. It feels like there is a lot that needs to happen.