City of Blades

After reading the excellent Foundryside, the start of a new trilogy the author has started, I decided I needed to read more by this author. I had read the first book in the Divine Cities, City of Stairs back in 2015, and it was good, so I decided to continue with that one first.

This one begins with the one-handed semi-retired General Turyin Mulaghesh. She's a tough one and an interesting character to follow. Shara Komayd (the main character from the first book) sends her to the city of Voortyashtan to investigate the disappearance of a ministry operative. Let's just say she finds out some exceedingly strange things. And we'll eventually reconnect with Sigrud, a Dreyling northerner who played a big part in the first book. He is also a very fun character, i.e. exceedingly dangerous. This well-written story held my interest during the set-up and then starts ramping up big developments about halfway through. I'm moving book three up a bit in my TBR pile.