Hugo reading. It continues apace.
This was awesome! I'd been meaning to read it for a while (and really appreciated Clark's other works, which I read for last year's Hugo), but this one was just such a good mix of genres with the grumpy civil servant and his bright-eyed new recruit solving the mystery but in a gorgeously realized fantasy world. It's not necessarily easy to take the familiar and elevate it, but Clark did so elegantly here and I really enjoyed this one.