Midnight Thief was a book I was really looking forward to and after finishing it, I have to say it was a very solid debut! 
 The main thing to know about Midnight Thief is that it's very slow burning all the way through. As a reader you learn more and more about the world and characters as the story goes on, not all at once or with mass info dumps. There's a lot going on plot-wise so I was really appreciative of this as it would've been simply too much otherwise. The world building is fantastic and gives the reader a great sense of Forge and its outlying regions. 
 Midnight Thief has quite a cast of characters and while they aren't all necessarily fleshed out to my liking, the major players are, and are given unique perspectives and personalities. Kyra is a very strong MC, and when she has to make tough decisions she weighs all the possibilities carefully and sticks by her choices. Tristam is also strong but in a different way from Kyra. His main motivation is to do what he thinks is right and tries to find a balance between his personal and professional. The two clash a lot of the time but I loved how they challenge each other constantly. The romance in this story is very minimal but I love the potential it has to be. 
 What brought this book down a notch for me was mainly one thing and it's kind of an important part. It's the section just after a big reveal. I had a pretty good idea about what it would be much earlier in the book, which wasn't an issue for me at all since it was only partially right, but it was after this when there are introductions of new things and I just didn't really care. I wanted to get back to the familiarity I had with the rest of the book. Thankfully it did and it was smooth sailing from there until the end of the book. But I do wonder how it's going to affect the rest of the series and how I'll feel about it. 
 Overall, I really enjoyed Midnight Thief! The plot, characters and world building had me engaged almost all the time and from what that ending gave me, I'm really looking forward for what the sequel has in store!