New Horizons

So in this book we're ditching 7 books of world- and side character-building. This could have been a brave decision, to explore a new world... if we didn't go into a 2 book long budget Harry Potter school arc, with no purpose or plot.

About 80% of books 7 & 8 is fully skippable. Walls of text on potential classes, magic systems, creatures,... none of which we will ever encounter.

Iona and Elaine finally meet, but other than that nothing really happens here.