Intensely Focused

I thought this was a satisfying conclusion to the series. Felix has come a long way and while he's certainly not a perfect person by the end of the book, he's clearly making a genuine effort and actually doing pretty well.

I'm still not a big fan of introducing a new major POV character in each novel but I eventually got used to it. However, it's especially problematic when the new character also speaks non standard English because that's two of the three POV with deliberately bad grammar. I did find that it made Mildmay's grammar less annoying but it was really distracted when I was reading Kay's portion. Apparently when speaking the language is constructed in such a away as to not have an expressed subject. There are also random thees and thous. I'm sure they follow some pattern, but I couldn't tell what it was. It makes no sense to me why dialog would sound different from an interior monologue, which had standard English. I found the whole thing more irritating and distracting than anything else, and it made it difficult to immerse myself in Kay's sections. I could follow what was being said easily enough, but it was still jarring.

On a related note, the time thing wasn't an issue in this book (I think it only comes up once) for which I was grateful.

Kay and his compatriot's distracting dialogue is unfortunate because I think his story was an interesting one.

It liked the different way of looking at the magic system and I liked learning more about it as Felix teaches someone else. The new mechanical component was interesting.

Despite my complaints about the dialogue, I really did enjoy this book and as I mentioned, I think it was a satisfying conclusion to both Felix and Mildmay's character arcs.