Articles of Faith

Mixed feelings on this one. On the plus side, it's energetic and easy to read, with some quality dialogue and fun characters. If you're looking for some new grimdark this will satisfy you. But it doesn't really do anything original, the world is generic and very lightly sketched in, and my god does the author need to learn the difference between “a cliffhanger ending” and “stopping the book two chapters early”.

I'd be a bit leery of the blurb and the way it emphasises humour. There are funny bits, mostly in the dialogue, but the story and plot are deadly serious. This isn't the kind of comic take on the genre I was expecting from the publisher's description. At the end of the day it's a solid fun read that will be nowhere near my top ten books of the year. I'll stick around for the next one though.