I knew I was going to like this and I was not wrong. Robert Jackson Bennet does very fun world building and gets the scale of epic fantasy right - meaning the focus is one the human and the things that matter to us.
I can see a lot of ways that it could go, depending on how big this story gets, but also I very much appreciated it for what it is - a delightful murder mystery with weird magic stuff.
And some enjoyable autistic representation as well. Gotta love a good "yes, obviously Holmes was neurodivergent, let's run with it in our recreations of him"