While I mostly enjoyed this story, I couldn’t get over the fact that they shouldn’t have gotten themselves into that situation in the first place. I found it hard to believe that, given his training and experience, Ben would have made the choices he did when presented with what was an obvious set up at the end of the last book.
Also, there were many moments that I felt like the author was adding words just to increase the word count in order to make the book long enough to be an actual book. There was a lot of unnecessary “fluff” in places.