I will say right off the bat that I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this book!

The world is pretty rich here, and I will give the author credit that there are "Native" characters here who are allowed to just be characters; I would say, given the source material, there's no real way of escaping racist aspects of the world, but Handman doesn't lean much further into stereotypes so that's kind of refreshing. The mystery was pretty compelling, with many twists and turns, and I had it figured out (loosely) by the end--not in a frustrating way, but just in that satisfactory "ah the pieces have come together!" way of a solid mystery. (ymmv on that--I'm not super familiar with mystery as a genre so it's an Accomplishment when I "solve" a mystery.) All in all, not a bad read!