Acacia: The War with the Mien by David Anthony Durham

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It's definitely the middle book. The scope of the world expands. The rotten characters (I'm looking at you eldest daughter) get more rotten. But there is no big resolution or tragedy to rap up the book. It's just the things that happen to get us to third book. It's the soul searching and motivations book. If you want huge heroics or damnable perfidy, you will have to wait for the third.

So, I am waiting . . . . I wonder how George R.R. Martin is doing?