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Martha Wells: The Wizard Hunters (The Fall of Ile-Rien, Book 1) (2004, Eos)

“A mysterious army known only as the Gardier has surrounded Ile-Rien, attacking in ominous black …

Insomnia, and had this loaded up on an ereader with a backlight, so I guess we're reading this too! This is my first time reading anything by Martha Wells that isn't Murderbot, but already I think I'm detecting her crunchy and satisfying style of writing, where the places and systems are just as much characters as the characters.

But I'm only a dozen pages in, so we'll see what develops. :)