**Spoilers**
Unfortunately, much of the last two hours focuses on characters the listener has little reason to care about or feel connected to. It gives off a strong “Patreon content” vibe — choppy plotting and very short, almost standalone segments that might work as episodic releases but feel disjointed in a full audiobook. Several scenes seem disconnected from both earlier events in the series and subsequent events, leaving them without real impact. There are also repeated, abbreviated reintroductions of characters we’ve already met, which adds to the sense of padding rather than progression.
The supposed “climax” only compounds the problem: it takes place roughly 500 years earlier. It centers almost entirely on characters the audience has no investment in and will hopefully never see again. Because it also involves a character known to be alive centuries later, the attempted emotional weight of their “death” lands flat — there’s no tension, no loss, and no payoff.