[Zadok]

I struggled with Midnight Tides as well. The Udinaas story arc was pretty poor throughout I thought, and the Trull story also left me cold, at least until the *big event that would be a spoiler* occured.

Tehol and Brys kept me reading through about the first 1/3 of the novel at which point things started to get alot more interesting all around.

I've found that I run into this whenever I start reading an Erickson book with alot of characters we haven't seen before. The Bonehunters, as others have said had me hooked from pretty much page 1 as most of the characters were familiar.