Hella trigger warnings, exposition could be spotty at times, and the author doesn’t seem to know whether the Shadow is a tactical genius or a bumbling noob, but I like the magic system and the attention to infrastructure and it’s nice to follow the characters’ developing relationships. A decent choice if you’re relatively unburdened. If you have serious addiction gremlins though, I’m not sure it’s worth the trouble, at least not this early in the series. It’s entirely probably the author improves further in.