A very good book that mixes two genre like epic fantasy and police procedural. There is a lot of world building and the character are interesting and well described.
The plot is fascinating and unusual and keep you hooked till the end.
Recommended.
Many thanks to Scott Warren and Netgalley for the ARC

I didn't finish this book. I usually don't review or rate books I don't finish, but I got to 74%, so I want to say why I stopped after having gone so far in.

There were two reasons. One is about my taste, and the other is about the author's professionalism, or lack thereof.

Taste first: I don't enjoy books that are grim, dark, or grimdark. This isn't all the way grimdark; several of the characters are doing hard things for the right reasons in a dark world. But the body count started escalating rapidly, and atrocity was piled upon atrocity, and I just didn't want to read any more. I should probably have taken warning from the prologue, in which an entire company of soldiers suffers a horrible fate.

Now, professionalism. I normally don't talk about the copy editing in the books I get from Netgalley (which is where I got this one), even when it's very bad, because they are usually pre-publication, and it's theoretically possible that they'll be properly edited before they're published. This one was published in 2014. It shows no sign of having been copy edited, and if it was, the author should ask for a refund. Any basically competent editor would have removed the many comma splices; punctuated the dialog correctly (when a sentence is interrupted by a beat, there is no capital when it resumes); fixed up the dashes, which are all followed by a space, and often used incorrectly; fixed the many instances of the "let's eat Grandma" error (missing vocative comma); removed commas before the main verb, and added them around subordinate clauses; fixed the sloppy typing that drops words out of sentences and leaves out periods and many closing quotation marks; done something about the frankly inept attempts to make some dialog sound "old-fashioned," which included using "thee" ungrammatically and adding a "be" to the beginning of some words, apparently under the mistaken impression that this would not change the meaning of the word; fixed the missing capitals for soldiers' ranks and even characters' names (probably more sloppy typing); corrected the use of "nonplussed" to mean its exact opposite; removed the hyphens in what should not be hyphenated phrases; corrected homonym or vocabulary errors like reserved/reservation, clouts/gouts, refer/defer, jilted/jinked, populous/populace, billeted/selected, compliment/complement, precedence/precedent, reprimand/remand, prospectus/prospective, recounted/recalled, flows/floes; perhaps even corrected "may" to "might" in past tense narration and fixed up the occasional incorrect verb tense or number. It's pretty much a complete collection of common errors, in fact, and a few rarer ones, and I haven't even listed all of them. There are literally dozens of these.

Even if the book had been well edited, though, I don't know that I would have persisted through all the horrible death and mayhem. That part is a matter of personal taste.