Status Updates From Fatal Gambit: A Novel (Rekk...

I may stop reading. It isn't a bad story but I wonder if I should have read the first in the series first. Rekke now appears to be a bumbling possibly in early stages if dementia and vargas has brothers that are drug dealers. The translation is somewhat stiff and unnatural. He is trying to write in a Sherlock Holmes way with a super perceptive rekke and possibly arch enemy.