This is not the kind of book that you can turn your brain off and just read. 

The world building / magic / political system is so vast and complex. Some books you notice things you didn't on the 2nd read through - this book I found myself flipping back through passages WHILE I was still reading to check notes. It's one of the few fiction books I've read that annotating was less of a cute aesthetic and more of a necessity to really keep your thoughts and predictions in order.

I felt like I was trying to solve this mystery alongside the Main Characters, and I felt all the tension and confusion and grief that they did.