This book is ANNOYING. If you're going to have characters keeping secrets, I really do feel like they need good reasons for it and these ones did not. For another, Temple's appearances in the other books were a lot more funny and all of a sudden he's the same brooding kind of guy as the others. Wasn't massively invested in the characters, the whole convoluted thing got dragged out way too long. 
 On the plus side, this is the first time the books acknowledge that the gaming hell (I feel silly just typing that) has some responsibility for the ills it causes, even if the acknowledgement is brief. 
 I was going to read the last book in the series but I think I'm going to give up on it tbh. Life's too short etc.