70% into the third of JV Jones' trilogy. With each switch in scene it's hard to bother continue reading. The suffering Raina experiences is too unbalanced. There needs to be something to balance suffering. With Hobb's Fitz, you knew he had such aces up his sleeve. Jones' Raif has great aces now, yet actually isn't really got much suffering. Probably the combination of suffering plus the ace is important. Effie's suffering has thankfully eased up. Riana though is more than 1000 pages of geting raped, slapped around, forced to marry the person who raped her, murdered her true love, with no one knowing what he did, and watching him destroy their clan, etc, etc. No glimpse really of anything positive. Totally unbalanced. Came very close to giving up on this book again. Instead the reading of it goes very slowly as the endless changing of scenes continues to make it hard to continue reading. I get into one scene just for it to end. To continously have to re-get in to another character's situation gets old.