Story is still consistently good. Characters are just not growing on me at all. And the characters I did like act so childish I can't even stand it. Some of the instances were highly predictable. Questions that were obvious took forever to be answered. Even though the reader is screaming at the book "I ALREADY KNOW". 
 I do like the authors writing save for the dumb flourishes here and there. You seem to get those in every book. And when your going to have a fight to the death and you take up your weapon why on God's green earth would you be thinking how beautiful or angelic you look or feel. WHAT! Who has a thought like that come upon them when impending doom is about to crush you?? 
 & don't even get me started on the endless pool of money the character seems to have access too and of course she never charges for her services. Never mind that character blow through money like Nicholas Cage on a bender.