Yea, I really enjoyed the breaker for the longest time, but got pretty exhausted by how needlessly drawn out it could be at times, although the high points made up for it a decent bit. Been meaning to go back and re-read it as I never did quite finish it, but have been hearing this same sentiment from a lot of people which has kinda turned me off. Glad to hear that the author is different from the breaker though as I hadn't known that, and since they've been knocking it outta the park here so far that encourages me to think it won't follow with the same flaws as that.

And I really hope Absolute Regression will be going well to the end, because novel is almost finished.

It's better for them to drop it. Because they've worked on the part three for five years (as far as I remember) just to make a self-repeating mess out of the plot.