So as I’m going through this series. One of the things I’ve enjoyed the absolute most is the world being slowly built up around me. Yes things are slightly touched on around the function of the thunderhead in the first book, but this book dwarfs the information we had in comparison. Even the lives of every day people have more life breathed into them, making the series feel much less like all the people being Gleamed are just slight foot notes in the lines. The building makes sense, her choice of Gleaming makes sense, the building up into book 3 makes sense.