This book was a pleasant surprise after The Wizard's Crown (which I absolutely hated). I really like this new direction for the series, and it has me hopeful that more good stuff is to come!

This book is still very much about Will, but his son Oliver is definitely central to the story, and very fun to read about. I was a little worried a lot of this would basically be "The Choice of Magic" all over again, with Will now training his son and the cycle kind of repeating with Will stepping into the Arrogan role, but without going into spoilers, I can safely say the book has a really interesting new thing going on for Oliver. I hope he gets an even bigger role in the next book, because I'd really like to see more of him as a point of view character.

While this book as quite a bit of story of its own to tell, it also contained a lot of setup for a larger overarching plot, so I hope the next book(s) in this series can deliver on it (unlike the previous series, which fell apart near the end). I'm excited to see what happens.