Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell 7/10

     So far this book is the weakest of the series. One poor element of the last book carried over. In the previous book there was a point where one of the characters gets poisoned, and gets it tortured out of him (there's another poison and it cancels the other one out). This plot point pushed believability in the last one. There's a plot point in this one where a character is going insane near the beginning of this book, and the resolution near the end is she just chooses not to be. It stretched credulity and pulled me out.
     One of the other problems is a minor one, but it still sort of annoyed me. Most of the times where a church or religious zealots the main characters become little more than mouthpieces for the authors' beliefs, and there are a few times where that happens. The other part of this is that the villain (either a power-hungry priest or a god in this case) are generally Marvel tier complexity. Yeah, he wants to take over the world. It's just not that interesting. There's a bit of this book that has that problem.
     If you already a fan of these books though ( and you kind of have to be to get all the way to book three) you'll probably like it. Some of the book began to feel like tropes that were already sufficiently explored in the previous two books.
   I don't want to come out as overly negative though. It did have some laugh out loud moments the same way the other books did, and I will definitely be picking up the last one.