Probably closer to a 3/5 than a 4/5 but I am a sucker for a shot of undiluted fantasy. This book is a rich, chocolate cake. It's dryly humorous, incredibly dense, gorgeously-worded, massive in scale, and sometimes annoyingly busy with that long cast list. Nonetheless, this absolutely ripped. A city-sized bar-fight accumulating mass and momentum to involve every power player that the fantasy genre offers; it's a tableau of many creative twists on typical "D&D" clichés, so many you may start to take notes. But it was almost like I could hear operatic, cinematic metal chugging while wizards disintegrate each other, thieves backstab, gods mingle in affairs and possess mortals, demons wreak havoc, dragons scorch earth, sentient swords trap souls, and oh- then we also have a squad of Regular Guys, chock-full of the indomitable human spirit. I only recommend this if you're well-read in fantasy, because this will not hold your hand. Fourloko to a medieval peasant and so on and so on