I enjoyed the world building and the writing, but there a few things that bugged me. Almost every female character had to be described as beautiful and sexy when introduced. I hope more modern fiction gets away from that. I felt some ambiguity about the main quest, restoring Tigana to the way it was 20 years before; and the methods used to do this. All the factions we led by men who had their own ambitions and didn't care much for the common folk. The lead character was very much the best of the them, but ... In the afterword the author addresses this and I understood his intentions better. It still bugged me.