It's been a while since I've read the first two books, but this is the first installment that I've read in ebook rather than audiobook format. I'm not sure whether this was the cause or it was the book itself, but this installment feels like it just lacks bite. It was very much travelling cleric, and missed some of the magic and wonder of the other installments. INTO THE RIVERLANDS was, in many ways, about the tiredness of storytelling (potentially because it was written in 2021). Chih and Almost Brilliant were still equally protagonists / narrators, but I do wish there was something more in INTO THE RIVERLANDS that the previous installments had.