Review: Good, but not exceptional
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
I absolutely loved the first one, and was waiting for this sequel.  It's still a fun read, but the novelty of the "bad" guy not getting how to behave if you don't have everybody worshiping the ground you step on is wearing off.  This exposes a slowness in the story development, the book could have used 50 less pages of "Waldo says something stupid and gets bonked for it" and 50 more pages of "moving along in the quest".  We know the quest is five years long, at the current speed that's going to take a "Wheel of Time" level of writing in about 25 books.