The Emperor's Blades

I wasn't into it from the start, but it did get better pretty quickly.

We follow 3 POVs in this book - Kaden, Valyn, and Adare. Unfortunately though, the only POV I found interesting was Valyn's (cadet school, murder mystery, great side characters, Annick <3), which luckily was also the biggest part of the book. Kaden's story only got more interesting towards the end, and Adare's never got that great at all.
Overall I did enjoy this way more than I thought I would, but I'm not super invested in its world beyond this book.

Aside from that nothing really jumps out, except that sometimes it had the tendency to take multiple pages to explain a new term that would appear in the dialogue, which in turn took me out of the story for a bit. Nothing too bad, but definitely noticeable.