This was such a tasty read. The settings are lush and dark, the prose really vivid, and it's hard to get more star-crossed than an inquisitor and a demon. The whole thing felt so indulgently decadent -- I enjoyed reading it a lot. Belimai's narration in the first half veers toward purple prose at times, especially when he's been using his drug of choice, but the third-person second half does a lot to make it clear that was a deliberate style choice. I can't help thinking of this as a sort of guilty pleasure book, but goodness, such a pleasure.