Another excellent entry in the Traitor Son cycle. The fighting, intrigue, and descriptions of weapons and armor remain top-notch, and the larger plotline is moved forward quite a bit, but I felt too much time was spent on less-interesting characters and the copyediting was rather weak.

The Captain and his crew remains the best part of the series. Following his story and his growth was a high point in the novel, to the point that the lengthy and frequent diversions with other POV characters were a little annoying. I found myself a bit bored with the character stationed in the Wild, especially Nita Quan. I just don't find him interesting, though the larger series plot dealing with the Wild is interesting enough.

One big problem I had with this one was the poor editing. Characters have changed names between books 1 and 2, entire races have changed names, sometimes the same character is referred to by different names just pages apart. It's really jarring, and frankly unacceptable in a published novel.

Still, a strong entry in the series, and nobody does knighthood and battles better.