A pulpy fantasy in a setting inspired by South American and indigenous cultures. It ends on a massive cliffhanger and while one arc of plot is resolved, it does not feel like this book stands by itself. Annoyingly the plot is driven by characters making bad decisions they probably shouldn't have been in the position to make and what passes for political intrigue is really just high school drama. The effort that's gone into works building is all that brings this up to ⭐⭐⭐, I don't care enough to suffer through another two of these.