Which is all very true.

My thought was that, if you know the story isn't supposed to be entirely resolved by the end of the book, are you perhaps more inclined to accept that things dropped are going to be picked up again? Recognizing it as a feature rather than a bug, I mean.

I don't know. I hope Mélusine is satisfying in and of itself--I intended it to be--but I don't get to be the judge of that.