I liked this one much better than The Bear and the Nightingale. It was tense and exciting, with twists that I should have seen coming but absolutely didn’t. The characters are great. The world is described with depth and complexity, but also in a way that doesn’t overwhelm you with description. The prose is a little dry but it fits the story and the era that the story is set in so it works. I’m looking forward to seeing how this all wraps up.