Look, I love this series with my whole heart. With all my heart. I have not recently had as much pleasure reading any book as I have had rereading the first two books in preparation for this third book.

So, like, yes, the ending was a bit choppy and drawn out, and some plot threads tie up a little excessively neatly, but I don't care. Give my poor Ren a break, and let someone else gripe about structure and pacing. I look forward to rereading this series again and again, to revisit this world and these characters and this brilliant, subtle, sensitive tapestry of culture and language and magic and politics.