This was not good.

I bought it because I wanted a standalone example of Keith Baker's fiction since he created the Eberron franchise for D&D but the other books were trilogies or done by different authors. This reads like a direct adaptation of a D&D adventure, complete with cheesy genre tropes, subpar characterization, hamfisted style, and twists that make no sense unless you're intimately familiar with the world and the characters there.

I'm glad I read it though, because now I know that Keith Baker, like me, is a worldbuilder more than a storyteller. I, too, have a hard time with good intrigue but love seeing it done and trying to replicate it.