The Empire of Gold

The plot, much like Kingdom of Copper was pretty slow, but there were lots of really good character moments. However, it did not feel like a drag building up to the climax. Many of the ‘plot twists' were shocking to the characters, but they do not leave much on an effect on the reader, largely because of Dara's POV where the author showed all the bad stuff already, so nothing tragic came as a surprise.
Yet still, three books in and I still do not understand why Nahids are seen as such a goody-two-shoes and perfect leaders, when pretty much all backstory and the current rule just always proves otherwise. In some ways even Ghassan's rule does not seem as bad as Nahids.
It was interesting to finally see other parts of the world and not just Daevabad and meet new characters and expand on some of the old ones.