A review by bfls
Assail by Ian C. Esslemont

4.0

When I first finished this book I felt disappointed. A lot of time was spent moving a lot of players together for a grand finale which turned out to be something of a fizzer.

However, as I thought about it more, if I viewed it as a story about various voyages of self-discovery rather than discovery, it was much more satisfying. Although, even then, you need to have read the previous relevant novels sufficiently recently to really understand the various story arcs here.