Winter's Demon: Vesik, Book 3 | 
so-soThe tropes just keep coming. Asher is clearly trying to flip many of them, but you're smacked upside the head with them instead of being organically part of the plot.
Throughout this series there have been some interesting plot points, and I *do* want to know what happens... but the writing feels a bit amateurish. Which is sad, because I really want to like this!