I bought the book following good recommendation and I'm disappointed. It looks like a book for teen starting in Heroic Fantasy. Good start, but after it gets little sense even ridiculous (Outcast / trafficking who returns home and suddenly was offered one of the highest military post ...). I'm not talking allusions to Moorcock (dagger drinking souls = Stormbringer), Tolkien (the valley = Galadriel), Leiber (thieves = Cycle Swords). Writing and translation are also very lightweight at times, it lacks style. I ended Volume 1 but I will stop it.