I originally gave this book 3 stars but after pondering it for a couple of days, I’ve settled on 4.
It’s dark, it’s gritty, it’s mysterious and it’s the first building block to what has the potential to be a huge universe. It’s establishing the characters, and they all have back stories and aren’t your run of the mill story-fodder characters.

There’s very dark scenes which some could find hard to read.
I found the conversations occasionally a bit odd, some parts read more like a screen-play.

I enjoyed the story but it took me a long time to get through the book and I wasn’t reaching for it as often as I thought I would. But overall I had no disagreements with the book, it’s plot or it’s writing. It’s really a book to take slow and really sink your teeth into.