I thought this had a moderately interesting story, but had such a singular narrative. I was hoping for more complexity and intrigue like in the original trilogy. Maybe this will build in later books, but I didn't see much evidence of that in this first instalment. 
 
I found that I didn't really care about or feel connected to any of the characters, which made the stakes feel pretty low. 
 
Some of the place names felt out of place and not cohesive, which at times brought me out of the story.
 
Maybe some of this disappointment is because I am comparing it so closely to the original trilogy, and if I viewed this as a separate entity, I would feel like it is a better book. However, I know I enjoyed The Final Empire way more than this one. 

There was also SO MUCH blatant and unincorporated info dumping throughout the book, and the epilogue just read like clunky exposition from the end of a generic mystery-thriller.
 
We also find out at the end that the majority of the novel only took place over one and a half days. There seemed a ludicrous amount of action to take place in this short timeframe, and it wasn’t made clear that the timeline was so short until the very end of the book, so this felt rather out of place. 
 

Also, Miles was trialled and executed in a week?? That seems like an oddly efficient process from a law system that has been berated for being pretty useless in the rest of the book.

 
In conclusion, I was pretty disappointed by this book. If this was the first book I'd read in this series, I very probably wouldn't have continued with it. However, because I enjoyed the original trilogy so much I am holding out hope for the rest of the series, so I will continue reading (especially as I have already bought the next 3 books).