how do you write a review for a book that is clearly a footnote in a bigger picture? how can you make an opinion so concise when you only have a third of the knowledge you need? i’ve read a ton of first books in trilogies where i never read the rest. they felt concise; finished stories in an anthology of the lives the the characters inside it. this wasn’t that. this was little more than an introduction to this world at large. how could i read this and glean anything without finishing the series?