I hoped this would fill the Daevabad Trilogy-shaped hole in my life since last summer, but sadly not. After the initially promising worldbuilding and introduction to the main characters, the plot became tedious, driven by unexplained jolts, related through inf0-dumping, the newer characters flat and pointless, the main two becoming hollowed out. Very nearly DNF, but hoped it might redeem itself itself in the end. It didn't.