Gideon the Ninth

I'm still not quite sure what I've just read, a whodunnit... in space.... with necromancers.... and swordswomen/men?
Sometimes I felt I was just pushing through the words to get to the plot and at other times I just floated away in the prose.
I enjoyed it, I will read more, I just wasn't as enthused as I expected to be after all the rave reviews.