This installment in the series does a lot of table setting compared to some others. while enjoyable enough in its own right, it’s obviously setting up a lot of dominoes for the next book/two parter books.
While I wish that the characters had a *bit* more time to play in the sandbox that is the world they inhabit, the tone is deliberately high stakes, high pressure and feels like an almost frictionless series of action sequences. One evolving into the next without much if any pause.