Oh I agree with you 100%. Even though what I love about the LE cast is that though everything they are like a family that found each other and love each other no matter what, there is still so much development and other things peppered all over the cast and how they interact with each other. So seeing more of that would have been more welcome. That said, though, there is so much they could have done differently with the novel in a way that made it interesting, connected the series, still got Claus hurt but made better sense not only in a storytelling manner, but in a characterization manner. But the way it's written is just really underwhelming.