Giving this up for now. It's interesting, but there isn't a good balance between introducing the reader to the world and starting the plot right up, which makes things feel off-kilter from the first few pages. I kept thinking I'd picked up the second book in the series by accident and was missing so much that would have been explained before.

And all the cigar smoking felt so contrived. "Oooh, my female character is so awesome and breaks the mold she loves cigars, do you see what I did there?" I did. And it's lame.