Hidden Empire

Overall, pretty good. I think I'll read the second one to see what happens because the series shows promise.

This specific book suffers a little from a large amount of setup and character introduction up front, but starts finally moving along decently in the back half.

One thing I don't particularly love is how every essentially every chapter switches viewpoints - it's not that it's difficult to keep up, but something interesting happens, and I need to wait 6 chapters to get back to it. I hope he tones that part down later on, it just feels gimmicky. Not every viewpoint needs equal and equally spaced representation!