This book kinda straddled the line between stories I enjoy and those I don't. Overall, it handled itself pretty well and the crime/procedural elements worked. This was a lot of "everything about this book is fine and, for whatever reason, I didn't really connect with it."

I could have done without killing the only named Orthodox character, though. It's not that it didn't make sense in context or anything, it's just that it's not like there are all that many religious Jews in fantasy novels and they tend to be dead, evil, or other. It's not this book, just that there aren't enough exceptions to the rule for me not to get slightly grumpy about meeting a frum character and (being right in) thinking "Yep, he's dead".