** spoiler alert ** 
 Me for the first half of this book: There is too much going on and I don't think this can get pulled off. 
 Me for the second half of this book: Holy cats, she's actually pulling this off. 
 I love all of these dumb idiot wonderful characters and I love this amazing set of novels. Highly recommended. 
 (But I do have one big spoiler/complaint: 
 (view spoiler)[The whole time I thought she was going to kill off Jesper in some foolhardy sacrificial move for his father and/or Wylan. But then she killed off Matthias and I am so cheesed about that. (hide spoiler)])