I liked the first two books much more than this one. Up to the point he sails off in search of the dragons he deals with the aftermath of a war that changed everyone. What was exciting about people has ceased to be exciting, and relationships start collapsing. Then it does get lame as he heads off in search of the land of the dragons. It feels like the first part of the book was a novella that lacked a satisfactory ending and he desperately grabbed for anything to come up with a rock-em sock-em ending (which it wasn't).