/lit/ - Literature

As this seems like more or less a fantasy general, I'll ask this here:

Does The First Law trilogy get more "high" fantasy in the later books? Of course, there's a lot of high fantasy stuff here and there in The Blade Itself, but most of this is just history by the time the story takes place.
I'm not a great fan of high fantasy, if it doesn't either gets so ridiculously over the top you don't need any explanations or whatever, or in comical novels. Yeah, it's magic and they aren't gonna explain shit, but I think it would be nice if magic would be consistent in it's own universe, as it basically replaces (and exceeds) what science does usually.