The Runesmith

Not a huge fan of this one.

First 50% of the book are very slow and dry. We follow multiple characters who are just straight cultivating/gaining power without any real purpose or goal.

After that we get into the big conflict with The Runesmith and The Chainbreakers. My main problem here is that they're just not very good bad guys. The Chainbreakers are all completely forgettable, using borrowed power to somehow be relevant. Even The Runesmith himself feels more like a dipshit protected by a lot of plot armor rather than an all powerful bad guy and sadly it seems like he's sticking around.

Zach is still a self righteous loser. His allies keep getting hurt because of him, while he keeps trying to save his enemies and noone calls him out on his bullshit.