A standalone (? I suspect a sequel will be forthcoming) novel set in a world with broken magic and major political upheaval. It’s an interesting story, well-written, and the love story is secondary to the rest of the novel. My one complaint is the use of non-English words for things we have perfectly useful equivalents, but he limits that to mainly cultural things (like priestly ranks and, more annoying, friend-relationships). It’s a good book if you like fantasy novels. It reminded me very strongly of the video game Planescape: Torment, in the sense of the main character being somewhat not-alive.