Everything about this book is so well done. Strong characters, good, bad, and secondary, interesting magic, and a tense, brilliant premise. Joel Leslie weaves his own astonishing magic. His characters are so distinct and individual that I forget there is a single narrator. All the tension of the book lives in his voice. There is a particular scene near the end of the book that is so mournful and lonely I found it hard to listen to. One of his best.