Actually about halfway through the book, all the characters were whining so much that I wouldn't have minded if they'd ALL died
I enjoyed the book, but the ending felt like a bit of an anticlimax to me. Kinda like the end of Matrix Reloaded. I know I'll be in a better position to judge the whole series once they are all written, but for me, the book didn't really FULFILL me in a way that books 3 or 4 did. Perhaps because of the sheer fricken length of it - IMHO it would have been a better book at 500+ pages, not 800+.
I'll re-read it soon - there's quite a few things that I think will make more sense upon second reading
