The Rage of Dragons

It's an easy book to like, hitting many typical tropes of modern fantasy but doing it in a good way.
It feels like a (better) rewrite of Peter V Brett's “Demon Cycle” (the african setting is a nice addition) with a heavy sprinkling of Brandon Sanderson “The Way of Kings” (lesser rather than slaves), all done without making the main character into a Gary Stu.

Dragons have a marginal role in the book and the story would stand perfectly on its own if they did not appear at all (demons on their own would have sufficed), but they do help in world-building and are used as a specific plot device I won't spoil but that works well.

Evan Winter's comment in this site summarises the reading experience very well: it's a very fun book to read and it feels like the author had fun writing it. If that means that'll make him more eager to write the sequels, so much the better, these are books I'll be looking forward to!