During the first book, I didn't understand why people found the storyline boring...now I get it. I feel like most of the book is the characters walking/traveling somewhere and instead of focusing on the characters themselves, the book mainly focuses on explanations and descriptions. I wound up skimming the last half of the book and only fully reading the conversational parts. I'm hoping the last book is more exciting and this was just more of a "Second Book" experience (i.e. squeals are normally not great)