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Just finished The Tainted Cup. It's good. Would recommend.
It's a nice self contained book.
Sherlock Homes style mystery. With the "Watson" character being the main character.
Fantasy style futuristic setting, where they have advanced kinds of bio technology that allows them to edit human biology to super human levels. While everything else is still swords and horses.
The bulk of the story takes place in a massively scaled wall city, that has to defend themselves from titanic creatures. Which for the most part, remain a mystery for the reader. But you still get a sense of their insane scale.
The story is very concerned about various "contagions". But one contagion seems to have been used as a weapon to spout from a human body, killing the victim. This is the catalyst for the entire mystery of the book.

So it's like this blend of Sherlock Homes, Attack on Titan and Elden Ring.
The author could probably milk this world for a few more mysteries.

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