The first book in the series was a little more original sounding, but this one has the look and feel of a book that was constructed using an AI agent. Characters having the same realizations over and over, each character having a turn to make speeches uncalled for by the scene, using AI chat bot common phrases, using repetitive descriptions about characters like AI reading from a character summary sheet, and a type off verbosity that sounds structurally perfect but ultimately says very little or is repetitive. I’m not accusing the author, I’m simply stating this is what I frustratingly thought as I read until I gave up.