Shadow and Betrayal

I'm a huge fan of the Expanse series, but this is the first time I've read Daniel Abraham's work outside of his co-writing. I'm happy to say that the sense of scale and depth of characters is as strong in this fantasy setting as it is in space. Abraham is a master of writing complicated characters with complicated relationships, and it shows. It's also a magic system that I've never seen done before. My only quibble is that the world-building as a whole seems so directly pulled from Japanese history as to feel a bit appropriation-y. It's not offensive (at least not to the white woman writing this), but I'd be curious to here what a Japanese person thinks of it. On the whole, I enjoyed it and plan to continue the series.