This started strong but fell apart quickly. I liked that we got the back story of Jardir and I do kinda' enjoy the Krasian people. They are carbon copies of Arabic cultures but as a sheltered individual without much knowledge of any people, I did find myself enjoying it, but could easily see how others could find it grating. I found the first third of this book fun and if it had been included in the last book it would have been excellent. 
 Before I continue I must mention the rapes. The first book had one of the stupidest and insulting rape scene I have ever seen (like I said, I'm sheltered) and I really hoped Peter Brett had learnt from this...and he kind of has but not really. We get two main character rapes this time round. The first being male on male and the only reason for it was so that character could get revenge later. It was stupid. The second was actually a little better though. This character is raped multiple times and it does have an effect on her character. She deals with it how I would expect this character to act after the life she has led and the way people are around her. Once that part of her life is over it still is with her and seems to motivate a lot of her decisions. There you go Brett, you made me OK with one of the three rapes so far :/ 
 Now here is the rub with this series. It's basically a zombie book. You have an outside force that kills all humans and people are living in a post-apocalyptic world. The thing with zombies though is that eventually your human characters kind of get on with it and find a way to live in the world. You then find that actually, Zombies are not so bad, its humans who are monstrous. With this book everyone has become OP as fuck pretty quick making the daemons a non-threat. We have the Krasian army invading and these are going to be the guys that show us how shitty humans can be to each other. They invade, they rape and abduct people...and then the story is completely put on hold. Yeah they rape and kill but like the leader is totes dreamy, let's have a couple 100 pages of main characters staying with them for a while even though these characters really should in no way go along with that idea. Roja is way too important to be risked. Leesha is the god damn leader and she's cool with running off. It makes no sense. The leader of the Krasian army, the man that has invaded, raped, murdered and abducted people has turned up with 50 men and you haven't cut his head off, instead you are going back to his camp and his people to decided if you should marry him. That's just fucking stupid. 
 Characters have become OP. Characters are making stupid decisions and not acting as people would act. Everyone is in lover with everyone else. This book drags whilst it desperately try to find a plot. 
 Meh.