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This was... phenomenal. It's rare for a book of this length to keep me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing, but this one managed it. The twists and turns of the story had

just enough breathing room between them to keep me engaged but not overwhelmed.

The world-building of the book is very well done, and it never feels like the author is infodumping on you. You can easily infer the meaning of world-specific terms from the context, but there's also a glossary at the end of the book (as I've discovered after finishing it LOL)

Similarly, I wish I knew beforehand that the book has a pronunciation guide at the end of it, because my internal narrator butchered a lot of names.

Also, I'm now reading the author's previous series (which I almost never do) because I really liked his writing.