We definitely spend way too much time inside his head. I guess some of the references to past events are kind of nostalgic and it's sort of nice to have a few missing details filled in, but it's at the expense of the story we're supposed to be following at the present moment. Such as it is.

I'm currently just over halfway through and the main villain FINALLY shows up, and quite frankly the entire first half of the book has now been rendered absolutely pointless. We did NOT need 300 pages of buildup to Murtagh and Thorn getting to the place where the main action is supposedly going to take place.