Cora The Gate of the Feral Gods felt like a bit of a hump, not as much drama and things started to feel a bit episodic for a while, but now it's heating up at the end. I reaaaaally want to finish it tonight!
I was talking to my buddy (who got sidetracked halfway through book 5 and just the other day started reading it again) and we were tossing back and forth ideas about meanings of things, how things work, future predictions. One of the things that was interesting was how he mentioned wondering about NPCs "waking up" and I remembered he isn't able to see the side-story that happens at the end of each book, which is actually all about "awoken NPCs". I don't want to spoil it too much, but I told him I'd scan the story so he can read it, I can email it to you when I get around to it too if you want!