It was great except it feels very much part of a series with a lot of aspects being unresolved. (view spoiler)[For example, Belor and the others were taken prisoner and yet to be found, both Nesbit and Fidelis were undefeated, as well as a feeling of unfinished business between Keleios and Lothor etc. (hide spoiler)] It felt like I'd jumped in at book two, where I missed all the "rules" regarding world-building and where there is a lot of the story still to be told in books to come.