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The first book of this ended up being really good. I think I thought it was slow in the first 2/13 chapters because I quickly grasped what he was doing with the worldbuilding. The mythological references are easy and the nature of the world is not as mysterious as New Sun. You know what this place is, if not how everything works. It's written like a normal novel, in the third person, and narrator is not unreliable.
The basic conflict of the plot comes from the main character being an augur (priest) being forced to engage with the criminal underworld because his manteion (church) got bought out from under their feet. So he has to figure out which lines he's willing to cross or not as he deals with criminal types, juggles his responsibilities to the gods and follows all the rules of his office, and wrestles with the question of violence, and so on.