Underlord

Where do I begin? I started this series as a light fun read to transition between more difficult books. This ended up being my most anticipated release this year.

I would say it's right up there with Ghostwater and Blackflame as one of the best books in the series. Excellent pacing as always, probably a bit too fast paced initially for my liking but slowed down well towards the middle. More importantly I think Will's character development has improved a lot from his previous books. Although it's very difficult to have good character development, well developed magic system and a fast action pace in a single book unless it's a behemoth, so it was understandable that character development suffered a bit in earlier books.

I very rarely go for a long series because most of the time I just get bored when the pace slows down to a crawl or the books get very repetitive, but I have no such issues so far with this series. Can't wait for the next book already.