Cookie-cutter epic fantasy, average in every respect. It checks off pretty much every expectation I have of this particular sub-genre.

In all fairness, epic fantasy is a personal hard sell. There are a few books of the type that I love, but mostly it doesn't do a whole lot for me. Luck in the Shadows is a competently executed book, and I liked it well enough. Apparently it's the first in a series. I probably won't be reading the rest. Not because it's done anything wrong - it hasn't. It just hasn't grabbed my attention more than usual, and these days epic fantasy has to do better than that to convince me to stick with it.