Age of Ash

I was expecting a slow burn, character-driven story because I'm familiar with Abraham's solo books and I got that. That expectation was met and honestly the story was well done but it did take a while to pick up. I think some parts were unnecessary (the people were in place long before they started to converge) but the payoff was good. The characters had a good representation of grief and believable motivations. I love the city of Kithamar

Enjoyable, I loved the characters for the most part apart from the one annoying stupid character,
There were moments where it slogged, but overall not a bad read.

I was surprised to find this is an excellent exploration of loss and grief, wrapped in an otherwise pedestrian intrigue/heist/long-con by unknown (and unknowing) greater forces at play sort of fantasy. I won't pick up the sequels. 

DNF @ 63%

I don't care about anything happening in this book at all. The characters don't interest me and the plot certainly doesn't interest me. However, Abraham's prose is great, and I will certainly read other stuff from him. In fact, I may try this book again at another time when I am more in the mood for something like this. But it wasn't vibing with me at all, I've already essentially forgotten it as I'm writing this review, and so pressing on until the end seems like a bad time.