The first half of this book was pretty good. I was excited to see where the story would go in the second half, but then it just slowed down in pace suddenly and took too long to get back up. Half of the story was Claire basically saying, "I shouldn't fall asleep right now." *falls asleep* 
 I get that she didn't get much sleep in the first half, but then she basically spent the second half walking around saying, "what's going on?" and sleeping. It got really repetitive and frustrating. Also, Myrnin's whole character arc in this book was really just not anything that made much sense. It seemed to come out of nowhere and was very two-dimensional. He went from normal, to insane, to just pathetic. There were a few noteworthy scenes that were well-done, but around those scenes things were just lacking.