I'm tired of the sexism and lechery. The author literally has characters notice that Che, one of the main female characters, basically does nothing but get kidnapped and captured, and then what happens? She gets captured again. It was also disgusting how Thalric forced a kiss on her despite knowing that she is in a relationship with another man she loves. Nothing better to be expected from a man who makes slaves have sex with him and uses rape as a threat, and I'm really not interested in seeing him get to perform more heroic acts. Arianna continues to be a completely flat character who is only there to be Stenwold's groupie (a replacement young woman to Che he can "keep safe" by forbidding her from going anywhere useful even though she wants to) and the book points outs once again that she is literally young enough to be his daughter (like the age gap between a college student and college professor) and yet continues this relationship. Nero is also interested in a younger woman who is literally twice as young as him, and when he confesses that he likes her, she has to process what she thinks about it rather than being realistically outright disgusted or uninterested. Pride of Dragon's sole purpose seems to be to love and support Salma as well. Tynisa's plot is just a puppet under Tisamon's plot, like this young woman can't have a cool arc of her own despite being a weaponsmaster. Felise Mienn's plot is also a puppet under Tisamon's plot. Totho's assigned woman with continues to not have solid character beyond that. The only thing keeping me going in this series was the war plot but given some devastating losses in battles of the main characters' allies, I've lost my interest there too. I think this series was best in the first book where the main characters actually got to be friends to one another and Che actually had character development, and I kept reading the series hoping that it would get even better, but instead it got worse. I no longer find it worth reading.