Dragon Coast, by Greg van Eekhout

The third book in the Daniel Blackland trilogy is the best. It has fewer bizarre plotholes and dropped plotlines (though not none), way better character relationships in general, an excellent storyline for my favorite odd couple Gabriel and Max, and also manages to get me interested in Daniel's own storyline, which was a first. (I did not care for Sam's storyline, but it was the shortest.)

There are three plotlines which intertwine but I will describe them separately. They're all spoilery for the last two books, so everything goes under a cut. Above the cut, I will just say that the giant thing with zero follow up from book one never gets any follow up, but this book does pick up some of the dangling threads from book two.

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