<blockquote><b><i>“What a strange constellation they all were.”</i></b></blockquote>I don't know how to feel about this book. Overall, I loved the tense atmosphere, I absolutely LOVE the characters and how they've evolved during the series (and I think they're at their best in this voluem) and there are interesting things happening here. But the entirety of the series revolved around a mystery and a quest and the way it was resolved was just...unsatisfying, anticlimatic...well, just disappointing, really. It felt like it was for nothing, all this build-up, and there wasn't anything to explain why that was, no big plot twist to make up for it. And the big issue this installmente presented was solved in a couple of pages. There were characters with lots of potential (ahem, Gwellian), who seemed to have a bigger role, but were just diversions and were never really utilized. It could've been much more, but it was an ok ending with lots of loose ends and possibilities that can be explored in the future.