This series is uneven, with every third volume so far being a clunker. This one is all set-up and asides as the hero spends half the book ripping through a practice run in a demon tower and then a boatload of new characters join pretty much every character who has ever been in the series in preparation for an assault on the island of monstrous ants that has been shown here and there throughout the previous volumes.

Looks like another predictable round of hunters getting in over their heads and our hero coming in to save the day. Ho-hum. I'm ready for the author to try a new plot sometime soon. ( )