OK, I’m genuinely impressed. Over the last few books. I’ve had my suspicions about who the captain of the mystery ship was and while I’ll avoid spoilers here, the midway reveal honestly had me shocked that I was wrong in my predictions, but also happy with the outcome at that point. It seemed entirely plausible and was something that I never even considered and was an excellent subversion of my expectations. I really had a “ wait what!?” moment at that reveal. I’m also very happy with the how the story continued from that point. The reveal was satisfying and the repercussions from that reveal we’re also immensely satisfying. It was a very nice payoff to stuff set up from other books.