Ultimately, although there is some fun gang war violence, a whirlwind romance that I didn't quite believe, and a pile of lore to digest if you're into that sort of thing, the book is actually structured more like a mystery, where the climax depends on Vlad figuring out whodunit and why. Even though he's the boss of his own mob territory he spends most of the time hobnobbing with some of the most powerful people in his nation, and sometimes this results in the other characters doing a lot of the work for him, but he turns around and pays it all back by figuring out the central question of the plot. The main character, Vlad, is a lovable sort of underdog. The are moments, particularly in the last third of the book, where the political complexities become almost impossible to follow, and not so much because they are complicated but because of how they are being untangled, but it all sort of makes sense in the end. A fun multilayered fantasy story in an interesting setting.
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