All in all, it was a good read, and I will look for and read the follow-up, but... 
 Lately, I've been dividing books I want to read in two categories: 
 - Books where the plot provides a good excuse for us to discover artfully crafted characters, 
 - Books where characters provide a good excuse for us to discover an artfully crafted plot. 
 With an overall tendency towards what is now called GrimDark, with preferably few to only one POV to contend with. 
 Before embarking on this book, I took on Django Wexler's absolutely sublime Thousand Names series, and left the last book feeling satisfied with a pleasurable journey through a fine example of the first category. 
 Starting this book, I was expecting it to fall within one box or the other. 
 So what do we have? 
 Few POVs? Check. Grimdark? well... somewhat. Immersive? not that much. And that, is my main gripe with this book: I couldn't really empathize with any of the main characters. I kept getting the feeling of being hurtled towards an unfathomable crossroad, and important details on the protagnists' personalities and back-story was being left the wayside. 
 So, this books falls in box 2 for me. And to be honest, I'm a sucker for dragons, so it's a "track" for me.